ABSTRACT
As an entrepot for Arab traders operating in the upper Congo region, Ujiji enjoyed renown in Great Britain unique to central African communities. The Arab settlers had been helpful as well as hospitable to Sir Richard Burton and Captain Speke and later to Dr. David Livingstone and Henry M. Stanley, and their published accounts had captured a measure of public imagination. The traveller would naturally expect on arriving at Ujiji to look to the westward over the lake; but the lake view is due south, where on a clear day Capes Kabogo and Kungwe may both be seen, and sometimes even the mountains of Marungu. Westward, if clear, the sharp profile of Bangwe Island, the south-west promontory of Ujiji, brings into sight the lofty tableland of Goma, forty miles away on the western shore of the lake. Increasing anxiety had long been felt for the safety and progress of Mr. Arthur Dodgshun.
