The Indiana State sentinel., 1875-10-21
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL rHURsDAY OCTOBER 2l875

tended to land such host of spears that
We hoisted our sail and left them TO whst
their tfeachery on some other boat or canoe
more imprudent than ours. The discounted
people were seen TO consult together on q
small ridge behind tho bush lining the Lake
and no doubt they though. we were about
TO pass close to q small point at the north
end OF the cone, shouting gleefully az the
prospect OF prize; bat, lowering the sail,
We pulled TO wind ward, far out OF the reach
OF DOW or sling, and &C dusk made for a
small island, to which we tied our boat, and
where we camped in security.
coAsTING ALONG NDURU AND wANeANo.
Next day we continued on our course, and
coasted along Nduru and wangsno, and
sailed into the bay which forms the nor.b-
eastern extremity of Lake Victoria Nivspzs.
Manyars, on the eastern side OF the bay, is
a land of bold hills and ridges, while the
very northeastern end, through which issues
the Yagama river into the Niysnzs. is fiat.
The opposite coast to ManYsra Is that OF
MuWands and tho prOmontory of Chags,
while the great slug-like island OF Usuguru,
standing from " st to east across the mouth
of the bay, shuts the bay almost entirely in.
At Muwanda we again trusted our fortunes
with the natives, and were this time not de-
eeived, SO that we were enabled to iay in
quite stock OF vegetables and provisions
at cheap rate. They gave US al The infor-
nHSlOu We OcelTtu. DaFlD&C, tDeF Saiu Is
| the name applied Dy the people OF Ugana 10
Nduru, district of Ugeyeya, and the bay
on which our boat rode the extreme end OF
| the lake, nor did they know Or had heard of
| any lake, large or small, other than the
Niyanza. / described the coast from Mu-
wanda to Uganda, and my visit to Mtesa,
with my happy encounter with Col. LinsuE
de Bellefonus, OF Gordon's staff at some
| length, SO l need not go over the same
ground.
| FROM UsUKUMA TO THE KAToNGA RIVER.
| The day after my last letter was written 1
made arrangements with the king of Uganda,
| by which he agreed to lend me thirty canoes
and some five hundred men, TO convey the
expedition from Usukuma to the Ketouga
river. With this promise and ten large ca
noes as an earnest of it, L started from Nor
Gibson Bay on april IL. We kept company
as far as the KstOnga river, but here the
shouli have to cross over to Sesse,
distant twelve miles from the main
land, and the largest island in the
Lake Niyanza, to procure the remaining
twenty canoes promised by Mtesa. the
| chief gave me two canoes to accompany
| me, promising that 1 should be overtaken
| by the entire fleet before many days. L was
| impatient to continue my survey OF the
| lake and to reach Usukums, having been SO
| long absent from the expedition, during
which time many things contrary to my
| success and peace of mind might have &C.
CURED.
sPEKES LATITUDES CORRECTED.
L took my observations twice q day wi.h a
sea horizoD-one at noon for latitude, and
one in the afternoon for longitude-aud |
am sorry to say that, If am right, Speke is
about fourteen miles wrong in his latituae
along the whole coast OF Uganda. The mouth
of the KatoDga river, for instance, according
TO his map, Is little south of the equator.
have made it by meridian altitude
observed April 20 to be in latitude degrees,
l6 minutes, 0 seconds north. Thus it is
nearly with all his latitudes. His longi-
tides and mine vary but little: but this is
easily accounted for. The longitude of any
position can be taken with chron onieter
sextant, and artificial horizon with the same
accuracy on land as on sea. If there is any
difference it is very likely to exist in the
error of the chronOmeterS What instru
, ments Speke possessed to obtain his lati
tudes 1 know not, but if he found the alti
tude of the sun ascending above 65 deg. ht
could never Ostain it with an ordinary eek
, tant except by double altitude, and ths
method is not exact taking simple
meridian on a quiet lake, with an ample
horizon of water. But there are various
; mstbods of determining ones latitude, snC
] Speke was familiar with many. My posi-
tioDs all round the lake have been deter
mined with sea horizon. When near noor
my plan was, ii the lake Was rough, I'D seeh
the nearest island or quiet cape at the ex.
tremity of bay, and there take my obser
vations as deliberately as though my lift
depended on their accuracy.