e Kagera to where we stood, showing, by
actual navigation, the connection of these highland lakes with the
rivers which drain the various spurs of the Mountains of the Moon. The
Kagera was deep and dark, of itself a very fine stream, and, considering
it was only one--and that, too, a minor one--of the various affluents
which drain the mountain valleys into the Victoria N'yanza through
the medium of the Kitangule river, I saw at once there must be water
sufficient to make the Kitangule a very powerful tributary to the lake.

On leaving this interesting place, with the widespread information of
all the surrounding countries I had gained, my mind was so impressed
with the topographical features of all this part of Africa, that in my
heart I resolved I would make Rumanika as happy as he had made me, and
asked K'yengo his doctor, of all things I possessed what the king would
like best. To my surprise I then learnt that Rumanika had set his heart
on the revolving rifle I had brought for Mtesa--the one, in fact, which
he had prevented my sending on to Uganda in the hands of Kachuchu, and
he would have begged me for it before had his high-minded dignity, and
the principle he had established of never begging for anything, not
interfered. I then said he should certainly have it; for as strongly
as I had withheld from giving anything to those begging scoundrels who
wished to rob me of all I possessed in the lower countries, so strongly
now did I feel inclined to be generous with this exceptional man
Rumanika. We then had another pic-nic together, and whilst I went home
to join Grant, Rumanika spent the night doing homage and sacrificing a
bullock at the tomb of his father Dagara.

Instead of paddling all down the lake again, I walked over the hill,
and, on crossing at its northern end, whished to shoot ducks; but the
superstitious boatmen put a stop to my intended amusement by imploring
me not to do so, lest the spirit of the lake should be roused to dry up
the waters.

4th.--Rumanika returned in the morning, walking up the hill, followed
by a long train of his officers, and a party of men carrying on their
shoulders his state carriage, which consisted of a large open basket
laid on the top of two very long poles. After entering his palace, I
immediately called on him to thank him for the great treat he had given
me, and presented him, as an earnest of what I thought, with the Colt's
revolving rifle and a fair allowance of ammun