At this point the valley is about twelve miles wide.

There are hills on both sides of the lake, but the haze from burning grass prevented us at the time from seeing far.

A long time after our return from Nyassa, we received a letter from Captain R.B.
Oldfield, R.N., then commanding H.M.S.

"Lyra," with the information that Dr.Roscher, an enterprising German who unfortunately lost his life in his zeal for exploration, had also reached the Lake, but on the 19th November following our discovery; and on his arrival had been informed by the natives that a party of white men were at the southern extremity.

On comparing dates (16th September and 19th November) we were about two months before Dr.Roscher.
It is not known where Dr.Roscher first saw its waters; as the exact position of Nusseewa on the borders of the Lake, where he lived some time, is unknown.