The Kilima-Njaro Expedition by Harry Johnston

As an anticipatory reply to the inquiries of such of my readers as may be of a commercial turn, I conclude this work on the district of Kilima-njaro by a short summary of its commercial prospects and capabilities. If in my natural history or geographical statements I occasionally repeat information already given in previous chapters, I deprecate the critic's impatience; I do so because the general reader is not likely to peruse this chapter, and my commercial friends will probably not have wasted their time over the other portions of the book; consequently it will be suggested to neither that he has seen these facts stated before, while at the same time their reiteration may serve to accentuate-what I believe to be-their great importance from the point of view in which this chapter is written.

Let me, then, first sketch out the physical geography of this country, which I have broadly described as Eastern Equatorial Africa. For present purposes, it may be delineated as follows: -By the River Ruvu, or Pangani, on the south; then westwards, following the 4th degree of south latitude to the 32nd degree of east longitude, including the basin of the Victoria Nyanza lake, and round again to the east, from the northern border of the lake, by Bariṅgo, to Kenia, the Tana river, and the coast.