The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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"UT5ST AFRICA.
" Lake," a form wliich they apply in a pre-eminent sense to Tanganyika itself.
The port in fact is a lacustrine basin of circular form, like a volcanic crater,
completely sheltered on the north and west by the ilpete peninsula, and on the
east bjr the escarpments of the plateau. The village of Katete, 'which stands about
2,000 feet above this almost land-locked haven, is the residence of a sultan called
the "Good Chief," who rules the northern Vua-Rungu people. Another important
station in this territory is Zombe, a group of palisaded enclosures 2,300 feet above
the lake, and consequently 5,000 feet above the sea, with a healthy, almost
European climate, and free from the tsetse fly.
Owing to its insalubrious climate, Pamhete, the southernmost port and Protestant
missionary station on the lake, has had to be abandoned, and is now replaced by
Ycmhr, on the promontory of that name, which stands between Pambete and the
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Lu-Fu river on the south-west coast. This is the intended northern terminus of
the carriage road constructed by Stevenson between Nj'assa and Tanganyika.
The two great lacustrine basins, connected by this highway some 270 miles long,
will form with the Shire, Zambese, and lateral arteries, the future main trade
route penetrating from the Zambese delta 1,200 miles inland, three-fourths of
which space is already open to steam navigation.
The western slope of the Tanganyika basin between the mouths of the Lo-Fu
and Lo-Fuko is occupied by the Itawa and Ma-Rungu (Wanya-Rungu) peoples,
who are of the same stock and speech as the Vua-Rungu on the ojjposite side of
the lake. This region is thickly peopled, some of the mountains being covered
with plantations and groups of dwellings from base to summit. On a headland
commanding the north side of the Lo-Fiiko the African International Association
has founded the station of Mjmki over against Kareraa, but better situated both as