Thus the only point necessary to settle was the river between the lake and the Karuma Falls.
The boats being ready, we took leave of the chief of Magungo, leaving him an acceptable present of beads, and descended the hill to the river, thankful at having so far successfully terminated the expedition as to have traced the lake to that important point, Magungo, which had been our clew to the discovery even so far away in time and place as the distant country of Latooka.

We were both very weak and ill, and my knees trembled beneath me as we walked down the easy descent.

I, in my enervated state, endeavoring to assist my wife, we were the "blind leading the blind;" but had life closed on that day we could have died most happily, for the hard fight through sickness and misery had ended in victory; and although I looked to home as a paradise never to be regained, I could have lain down to sleep in contentment on this spot, with the consolation that, if the body had been vanquished, we died with the prize in our grasp.
On arrival at the canoes we found everything in readiness, and the boatmen already in their places.

Once in the broad channel of dead water we steered due east, and made rapid way until the evening.

The river as it now appeared, although devoid of current, was on an average about 500 yards in width.