Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-08-30

ka, Urundi and Ruanda, / am able to
give you additional details of the
source and course Of the Kagera river,
and [ hold out to myself some small
hope that in few months from the
present date may be able to explore
from another quarter tract Of country
which, alphabetically, [ believe con-
tains the extreme sources of this river
Until that period let the following stand
for the utmost of our knowledge of it.
MOUNTAINS TWELVE THOUSAND FEET HIGH.
From ridge near Mtagata Hot
Springs, having an altitude of $4,000
feet above the ocean I obtained view
of Uumbiro Mountains, which have
a height of about $4,000 feet. This
group consists Of two sugar loaf cones
and lumpy mass, and is situate about
forty geographical miles west-northwest
from Mtagata, and form barrier at
that spot between Mporovo and Ruanda
TYPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF CENTRAL
AERICA.
The course of all the main ridges and
valleys from Ruanda to Victoria Nyan-
"a appear to be south by west. Nay,
you may say that from Alexandria to
Nyassa Lake, the Central portion of
Africa appears to be formed iuto
ridges, deep troughs or basins, or val
legs, whose length is from north by east
to south by west, or from northeast to
south west. Regerd the courre of the
Nile from Lake Albert TO Alexandria.
the position of Lakes Albert, Tan
ganyika and Nyassa, as well as the Vic
toria Lake. Follow the course of the
Mokattem range of mountains through
Nubia,r Abyssinia, Gala, Nasal and
Usagara; trace the plateau of Nasal.
Upyanwezi, Urori, ..Ubisa, south to
the Beehuana country, and you viii
perceive that the genera! lay OF almost all
rivers, lakes, mountains, basins and
plateaus is from northeasterly to south
westerly. On q reduced scale it. is even
SO with all the mountain ridges and val
legs between the Lakes Victoria and Al.
bert. It seems as if the throes which
Africa suffered during that grand con-
vulsion which tore her asunder heaved
up these stupendous ridges and sunk
those capacious basins now filled with
lengthy and broad expanses of crystal
about these lake regions; for here the
mountains are higher, the valleys deeper
and narrower. We have no longer the
wide, billowy plateau, whose successive
swells make travel and exploration
tedious, but lengthy lines of mountains
of enormous frame, separated from each
other by deep, narrow valleys, with a
hundred and many wonders presented
to the view at a glance. EE TT
THE VALLEY OF THE NAwARoNeo.
From Mtagata mountain, while look
were visible three lofty ridges, separat-
ed by as many broad valleys. The first
was the Ishango and Muva-i ridge, west
of this were two ridges, with the val
ley of Muvari between the two eastern
most, and the valley of Ruanda between
the two westernmost The two latter
ridges appear to run parallel with each
from east and west of the Ufumbiro
mountains, and shut i'll the valley of
the Ni-Nawarango or Nawarongo river,
which, rising in the Ufum bro noun
tains, flows south by west between
Muvari and Ruanda, and enters Akan-
yuru lake, thirty by twenty miles in
extent. From Akanyuru lake issues
Akanyuru river, between Ugufu and
Kishakka, into the Kagera. The Rage
ra proper, coming from the southwest,
also enters Akanyuru lake, but leaves
the lake south of Ugufu and takes
curve northeasterly between Ugufu and
Western Usui.
THE SUPPOSED LAKE WEST OF LAKE Al
h -. BERT. }H
West of Akanyaru could get no Ger
tain intelligence. I have heard of an
other large lake lying west, but what
connection it has with the Kagera, or
whether it has any, cannot learn def
nitely. One says that it is an arm of
Luta Nzige or Lake Albert, another de-
clares it to be a separate lake.