A friendly old Ulungu chief, named Kasonso, on hearing that I wished to visit Lake Liemba, which lies in his country, gave his son with a large escort to guide me thither; and on the 2nd April last we reached the brim of the deep cup-like cavity in which the Lake reposes.

The descent is 2000 feet, and still the surface of the water is upwards of 2500 feet above the level of the sea.

The sides of the hollow are very steep, and sometimes the rocks run the whole 2000 feet sheer down to the water.
Nowhere is there three miles of level land from the foot of the cliffs to the shore, but top, sides, and bottom are covered with well-grown wood and grass, except where the bare rocks protrude.
The scenery is extremely beautiful.

The "Aeasy," a stream of 15 yards broad and thigh deep, came down alongside our precipitous path, and formed cascades by leaping 300 feet at a time.

These, with the bright red of the clay schists among the greenwood-trees, made the dullest of my attendants pause and remark with wonder.