PKIMmVE MAN. 
10$ 
the low shores, and were making good progress, when we bumped over the 
«pme of a nsing hippopotamus, who frightened by this strange and weighty 
object on his back, gave a furious lunge, and shook the boat until wl all 
thought she would be shaken to pieces. The hippo, after this manifestation 
‘tisgust, rose a few feet astern, and loudly roared his defiance; but after 
e^nencing his great strength, we rowed away hard from his neighbour- 
About 10 A.M. we found ourselves abreast of the cones of Manyara and 
discovered the long and lofty promontory which had attracted our attention 
ever since leaving Maheta to be the island of Usuguni, another, though 
arger, copy of Ugingo. Through a channel two miles broad we entered the 
bay of Manyara, bounded on the east by the picturesque hills of that country 
on t e north by the plain of Ugana, and on the west by Muiwanda and the 
long, narrow promontory of Chaga. This bay forms the extreme north-east 
comer of Lake Victoria, but strangers, travelling by land, would undoubtedly 
mistake it for a separate lake, as Usuguru, when looked at from this bay 
seems to overlap the points of Chaga and Manyara. 
A Wut SIX miles from the north-eastern extremity of the bay, we anchored 
^ the afternoon of the 24th of March, about 100 yards from the villa<^e of 
Muiwanda. Here we found a people speaking the language of Uso-a" A 
gr «leal of diplomacy was employed between the natives and oifrselves 
before a friendly intercourse was established, but we were finally successful in 
inducing the natives to exchange vegetable produce and a sheep for some of 
the blue glass beads called Mutunda. Neither men nor women wore any 
covering for their nakedness save a kirtle of green banana-leaves, which 
appc'ared to me to resemble in its exceeding primitiveness the fig-leaf cos 
tume of Adam and Eve. The men were distinguished, besides, by the 
ateen^ce of the upper and lower front teeth, and by their shaven heads on 
which were left only irregular combs or crescents of hair on the top and over 
the forehead. While we were negotiating for food, a magnificent canoe 
painted a reddish brown, came, up from the western side of the village but" 
des^pite the loud invitations tendered to them, the strangers kept on their'wav" 
and proceeded up the bay of Manyara. 
On the 25th, refreshed by the meat and vegetables we had purchased we 
began our voyage along the northern coast of Lake Victoria, and, two hours 
to decide whether Ohaga is a promontory or an island, but I believe that there 
18 a narrow channel navigable for canoes (of the same nature as the Rugedzi * 
Channel) separating Chaga from the mainland. Between its southern point 
• Rugedzi u the name of the narrow channel which leparate* Ukerewd from the 
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