Africa . an5100 feet above the sea-level. From its eastern limits toUrimi the plateau is overgrown with acacia thickets sodense as to stifle all other vegetable growth. Nothingelse is seen but an occasional gigantic euphorbia in somerocky cleft as solitary lord of this sterile domain. Following up the footsteps of recent explorers, theChurch and London Missionary Societies are now engagedin founding mission stations in this region of East Africa,and their pioneer parties have been farther examining theroutes and rivers winch lead into the interior. Mr. Price,as we have previously noted, has ma
Africa . an5100 feet above the sea-level. From its eastern limits toUrimi the plateau is overgrown with acacia thickets sodense as to stifle all other vegetable growth. Nothingelse is seen but an occasional gigantic euphorbia in somerocky cleft as solitary lord of this sterile domain. Following up the footsteps of recent explorers, theChurch and London Missionary Societies are now engagedin founding mission stations in this region of East Africa,and their pioneer parties have been farther examining theroutes and rivers winch lead into the interior. Mr. Price,as we have previously noted, has made a great advance intaking bullock-waggons from the coast inland to Ugogo,by a route which is free from the tsetze fly, thereby doingaway with the necessity for native porters ; and a ChurchMission party, aiming at founding a station in Karagwe,have marched over the Stanleys route through Mpwapwanorth-westward to Kagehyi, on the Victoria lake, withoutmeeting any hostility from the natives. The six months. KALULU, Stanleys faithful Young Companion. To face page 316. At Unyanyembe, in September 1871, an Arab presented Mr. Stanley with a little slave boy,named Ndugu Mhali = my brothers wealth; but he was re-named Ka-lu-lu, which isKisuaheli for the young of the blue-buck. He came to England with Mr. Stanley, and wasat school there for more than a year. He was lost in one of the furious cataracts of theLower Congo, in Mr. Stanleys latest expedition. EQUATORIAL LAKE REGIONS. 317 from July 1876 to January 1877 were occupied in theirmarch to the Victoria from Bagamoyo. 6. The Leewumhit or Shimeeyu. In the heart of Urimi the Nile receives its first tributefrom Equatorial Africa. If we draw a line on the map inthe latitude of Ujiji, on the Tanganyika, eastwards to 35°east longitude, we shall strike the source of the Leewumbu,the most southern affluent of the Victoria Nyanza. InIramba, between Mgongo Tembo and Mombiti, Stanleycame upon the Luwamberri plain, which may at some re-mote pe
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