ABSTRACT
A few days" travel brought us to the Malagarasi River, which .t-\ flo,vs into Lake Tanganyika south of Ujiji. Its current
runs in the rainy season about five miles an hour, and, being very deep, it is never fordable. Fish are plentiful, whilst crocodiles in considerable numbers infest every stretch of backwater, lnaking it out of the question to cross by swimrning. We had expected this difficulty, and the problell1 of how to get our heavy boat-sections across caused some anxiety. "The ferry was in the hands of a petty chief of the Wavinza, who, living on the opposite side, o\ved no allegiauce to our friend l\-1iralnbo, but on the contrary sought to annoy his frontier subjects whenever opportunity presented itself. The greedy old warrior, wearing a skin cap, was superintendent of the canoes, \vhich were altnost as difficult to nlanage as a lutrrO\V racing skiff". flow he would convey across the river both loads and filen, was not easy to understand.
