Aden--Departure--Kurrum--A conclave of sages--Arrangement of the expedition--The south-west monsoon--Medical practice--The camp besieged--Wounded and captive--A triumphal procession--Flight Return to Aden and to England--Fresh projects there. Journal of a Cruise on the Tanganyika Lake. Chapter I. The Royal Geographical Society--The strange lake on the map--Set off--Arrive at Zanzibar--A preliminary excursion--A sail along the coast--The Pangani river--A jemadar's trick--Journey to Fuga--Adventures--Return to Zanzibar--Scenes there--Objects of the expedition--Recruiting for followers--The Cafila Bashi--The start--Fevers--Discussions about the Mountains of the Moon and the Victoria N'yanza--The Tanganyika. Chapter II. Canoes--The crews--The biography of Bombay--The voyage--Crocodiles--The lake scenery--Kivira island--Black beetles--An adventure with one of them--Kasengé island--African slavery. Chapter III Leave Tanganyika--Determine to visit the Ukéréwé lake, alias Victoria N'yanza--Confusion about rivers running in and out--Idea that it is the source of the Nile--Arrangements for the journey--Difficulties--The march--Nature of the country--Formalities at the meeting of caravans--A pagazi strike--A sultana--Incidents--Pillars of granite. Chapter IV First sight of the Victoria N'yanza--Its physical geography--Speculations on its being the source of the Nile--Sport on the lake--Sultans Machunda and Mahaya--Missionary accounts of the geography--Arab accounts--Regrets at inability to complete the discovery--The march resumed--History of the Watuta--Hippopotamus-hunting--Adventures--Kahama. Chapter V General character of the country traversed--The huts--The geology--Productions--Land of promise--Advice to missionaries--Leave Ulekampuri--Return of the expedition--Register of temperature. Journal of Adventures in Somali Land. Chapter I. Introduction to the Journal. Projects and Hobbies--life in India--lord Clyde and Sir James Outram--the Position and Physical Geography of the Somali Country--the Nogal Country, and Historical Sketches--Costume and Customs.