I long for others, for milk is the most strengthening food I can get.
My guide to Moero came to-day, and I visited the Lake several times, so as to get a good idea of its size.

The first fifteen miles in the north are from twelve or more to thirty-three miles broad.

The great mass of the Rua Mountains confines it.

Thus in a clear day a lower range is seen continued from the high point of the first mass away to the west south-west, this ends, and sea horizon is alone visible away to the south and west; from the height we viewed it at, the width must be over forty, perhaps sixty miles.

A large island, called Kirwa,[59] is situated between the Mandapala and Kabukwa Rivers, but nearest to the other shore.