noon
A collection of some fifty or more circular huts , covered with a flowering thatch , constituted the capital of the Karagwah country . '' He could easily distinguish the astonished countenances of a rather fine-looking race of natives of yellowish-brown complexion . Women of incredible corpulence were dawdling about through the cultivated grounds , and the doctor greatly surprised his companions by informing them that this rotundity , which is highly esteemed in that region , was obtained by an obligatory diet of curdled milk . At noon , the Victoria was in one degree forty-five minutes south latitude , and at one o'clock the wind was driving her directly toward the lake . This sheet of water was christened Uyanza Victoria , or Victoria Lake , by Captain Speke . At the place now mentioned it might measure about ninety miles in breadth , and at its southern extremity the captain found a group of islets , which he named the Archipelago of Bengal . He pushed his survey as far as Muanza , on the eastern coast , where he was received by the sultan .