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the attempt at towing. We arrived within three miles and a half of the cataract already described, and discovered another much more important one, near which was a village. The inhabitants ran out to look at us, and gave me all the information T desired. They assured me there was a great river coming from far away in Uganda, called the Tisa, and forming three cascades — the first, that which 1 had passed, called Hoiuma ; the second, Wanbabia ; the third, Nanza. Their volume never diminished throughout the year. The natives knew that this river passes at the foot of the Mmuka mountain ; they had been several times in the interior of Uganda to transport ivory on Kaba Rega's account, but they had never gone so far as the source of the river. I myself wished to see this water-course which they told me was so wide and deep, but the mountain that I should have had to climb was rocky and as perpendicular as a wall, and a long round would have to be made to find a practicable passage. That day I had the fever.

A])v\l 16th. — I profited by the calm weather to set out on my journey at four in the morning, towing the boat. At six we came in sight of the third cascade, which is fully equal to the second. These three waterfalls contribute a considerable contingent to the lake ; they descend from a height of from five to six hundred feet.

The lake is much agitated ; it seems there has been a thunderstorm somewhere in the night.

To-day we went along by dint of rowing, and at two in the morning we had not yet found a favourable spot for anchorage. The sky was covered with clouds ; now and then a flash of lightning illumined the scene. I tried to reach a spur-shaped promontory perceived at the moment of sunset. The shores of the lake have the form of little rounded heights covered with grass and bushes, and descending perpendicularly into the water.