On the 16th June, after a long march of four and three-quarter hours, we arrived at the zeriba of Rusessé. We descended from Karimi about 700 feet to the plain of Eastern Usongora, and an hour later we came to Ruverahi River, 40 feet wide, and a foot deep; an ice-cold stream, clear as crystal and fresh from the snows. Ruwenzori was all the morning in sight, a bright vision of mountain beauty and glory. As we approached Rusessé a Msongora herdsman, in the employ of Rukara, the General of the Wara-Sura, came across the plain, and informed us that he could direct us to one of Rukara’s herds. We availed ourselves of his kind offices, which he was performing as a patriot son of the soil tyrannised over and devastated by Rukara; and fifty rifles were sent with him, and in fifteen minutes we were in possession of a fine herd of twenty-five fat cattle, which we drove without incident with our one hundred head to the zeriba of Rusessé. From a bank of cattle-dung, so high as to be like a great earthwork round about the village, we gained our first view of the Albert Edward Nyanza, at a distance of three miles. CHAPTER XXIX. THE SOURCES OF THE NILE--THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF THE NILE. Père Jerome Lobo and the Nile--The chartographers of Homer’s time--Hekatæus’s ideas of Africa--Africa after Hipparchus--The great Ptolemy’s map--Edrisi’s map--Map of the Margarita Philosophica--Map of John Ruysch--Sylvannus’ Map--Sebastian Cabot’s map--The arbitrariness of the modern map-maker--Map of Constable, Edinburgh--What Hugh Murray says in his book published in 1818--A fine dissertation on the Nile by Father Lobo--Extracts from part of a MS. in the possession of H. E. Ali Pasha Moubarek--Plan of Mount Gumr--A good description of Africa by Scheabeddin--The Nile according to Abdul Hassen Ali--Abu Abd Allah Mohammed on the Nile river. [Sidenote: 1889. June. The Nile.] Every reader of this chapter will agree with Père Jerome Lobo, of the Company of Jesus, who wrote in the 16th century, that “it is not difficult, after having found the sources of the Nile, and of the rivers that run into it, to resolve the question as to its origin--a question that has caused so much anxiety to ancient and modern authors, because they were looking for that which could not be discovered in their heads, by which they were lost in vain thoughts and reasonings.”