ance all the king's
sons, as well as a large number of beaters, with three or four dogs.
Tripping down the greensward of the hills together, these tall, athletic
princes every now and then stopped to see who could shoot furthest,
and I must say I never witnessed better feats in my life. With powerful
six-feet-long bows they pulled their arrows' heads up to the wood, and
made wonderful shots in the distance. They then placed me in position,
and arranging the field, drove the covers like men well accustomed to
sport--indeed, it struck me they indulged too much in that pleasure, for
we saw nothing but two or three montana and some diminutive antelopes,
about the size of mouse deer, and so exceedingly shy that not one was
bagged.

Returning home to the tents as the evening sky was illumined with the
red glare of the sun, my attention was attracted by observing in the
distance some bold sky-scraping cones situated in the country Ruanda,
which at once brought back to recollection the ill-defined story I had
heard from the Arabs of a wonderful hill always covered with clouds,
on which snow or hail was constantly falling. This was a valuable
discovery, for I found these hills to be the great turn-point of the
Central African watershed. Without loss of time I set to work, and,
gathering all the travellers I could in the country, protracted, from
their descriptions, all the distance topographical features set down in
the map, as far north as 3 deg. of north latitude, as far east as 36 deg.,
and as far west as 26 deg. of east longitude; only afterwards slightly
corrected, as I was better able to connect and clear up some trifling
but doubtful points.

Indeed, I was not only surprised at the amount of information about
distant places I was enabled to get here from these men, but also at the
correctness of their vast and varied knowledge, as I afterwards tested
it by observation and the statements of others. I rely so far on the
geographical information I thus received, that I would advise no one to
doubt the accuracy of these protractions until he has been on the spot
to test them by actual inspection. About the size only of the minor
lakes do I feel doubtful, more especially the Little Luta Nzige, which
on the former journey I heard was a salt lake, because salt was found
on its shores and in one of its islands. Now, without going into any
lengthy details, and giving Rumanika due credit for everything--for had
he not ordered his