ABSTRACT
In 1890 the Royal Geographical Society named Edward Coode Hore as the recipient of its annual Cuthbert Peek award for the advancement of European knowledge of the interior of Africa. His contribution was the completion and verification of the partial surveys of Lake Tanganyika made by Burton and Speke, Livingstone, and Stanley, and Cameron. The extreme north end is low alluvial land, following the general rule on the lake, which is, that bordering a shore trending east and west, an expanse of shallow water and a low beach are usually found, as though the shore had been washed down gradually by the waves. The oil-palm is met with both at Ujiji, Urundi, and at the south end of the lake, the Raphia in several luxuriant localities, the Borassus largely on the margin of the Malagarasi river, the screw-palm in Uguha, and a single coco-nut-tree flourishes in the garden of an Arab at Ujiji.
