ed that wise and
cautions old hunter, "I would soon find out. If I were in Marungu or in
Usowa I could soon tell. Did I not hear thee say, Kalulu, that there
lay a lake, a large body of water somewhere about here?"

"Yes, Lake Liemba; there is no end to it. It runs towards the north,"
replied Kalulu.

"Lake Liemba! Liemba!" said Moto to himself, like one trying to
remember whether he had ever heard the name before. "I never heard of
Liemba that I know of. I have been on Lake Tanganika several times in
going from Ujiji to--"

"Ujiji!" said Kalulu, in a surprised tone. "Ujiji! I never heard the
Watuta travellers talk about the Tanganika; but I have always heard that
Ujiji was on Liemba, not far from Usowa, but further up."

"Wallahi!" shouted Moto. "Then Lake Tanganika is only another name for
Lake Liemba, for Ujiji is on Lake Tanganika, and Usowa is only a few
days south of Ujiji. First after Ujiji there is Kawendi; then we come
to Usowa; and after that is Uwemba--no, not Uwemba--Ufipa; and after
Ufipa, Uwemba; then we always went straight to Marungu."

"If thou canst go from Ujiji to Marungu, then," said Kalulu, "or to
Wemba or Usowa, the road is easy, if thou knowest the road from Ujiji to
Zanzibar."

"Ah! don't I?" answered Moto, in a triumphant tone. "I will find the
road from Ujiji to Zanzibar. I have travelled the road five times from
Ujiji to Zanzibar, and I ought to know it. I have been guide to Sayd
bin Hashid from Unyanyembe to Ujiji; but there is a better and nearer
road to Zanzibar from Fipa to Usowa; then to Ukorongo and Unyanyembe."

"Well, then," said Simba, "what we have got to do is to reach this lake,
whence it is easy to reach Ufipa or Usowa, and from thence to
Unyanyembe, after which it will be easy to get to Zanzibar."

"I know the road to the Lake," said Kalulu, "for I was on the lake some
moons ago. It ought to lie just where you saw the sun set to-night
about twenty days' march from here. But between us and this lake is
Ferodia's country. We should go a week further this way (pointing to
the south), then turn round and go up, slowly towards the lake."

"Ngema--Ngema" (good, good), all cried delighted.

"To-morrow we will continue the journey south, and after a week we will
pick our way toward this lake, and Inshallah! we shall see Zanzibar
within five moons from now," said Simba.

"And to-morrow we shall get food--Inshallah!" said Moto.

"Inshallah, Inshallah!" all th