The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan . apter xviii), suggest thatwith his own eyes or with the eyes of some Ptolemy-friend, he informed himself as to that wonderfulland. But it is Ptolemy (more accurately Clau-dius Ptolemaeus), Greek-Egyptian, who is cred-ited with the first clear indication of the lakesources and of the separate lake sources of thetwo branches of the Nile, adding hints as to theexistence of twin lakes and great snowy rangescalled the Mountains of the Moon. Though notan explorer, says Sir Harry J
The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan . apter xviii), suggest thatwith his own eyes or with the eyes of some Ptolemy-friend, he informed himself as to that wonderfulland. But it is Ptolemy (more accurately Clau-dius Ptolemaeus), Greek-Egyptian, who is cred-ited with the first clear indication of the lakesources and of the separate lake sources of thetwo branches of the Nile, adding hints as to theexistence of twin lakes and great snowy rangescalled the Mountains of the Moon. Though notan explorer, says Sir Harry Johnston, Ptolemystands (for his age) in the highest rank of Nilegeographers; but he had to wait something likeseventeen hundred and forty years before SirHenry Stanley, by his discovery of the Semliki,the Ruwenzori snow-range, and the last prob-lems of the Nile sources, did justice to that re-markable foreshadowing of the main features ofthe Nile system due to the genius of the Alex-andrian geographer. What he contributedset the high water mark of geographical knowl-edge of the Nile watershed for almost 1, From The Nile Quest, Per F. A. Stokes Co. THE COURSE OF THE NILE ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY. From the oldest version of Ptolemys Maps, in930 A. D., preserved in the Mount Athos Monastery. existence about THE LAND OF THE BLACKS 43 Thus we come down to modern times and the In Moderngreat period of African exploration. It is not Times-possible to do more than mention names, norwill the list be complete. There are, however, thenotable Bruce (1770) and the youthful Browne(1791); Burckhardt (1812) and Thibaut(1839); Petherick (1845) and Peney (1861) ;Baker (1864) and Schweinfurth (1868) whocontributed so richly not merely to geography,but to botany <- nd zoology also; and a great hostof others, traders, explorers and government of-ficials, who surveyed areas large and small inthe Egyptian Sudan. In 1839 or 1840 one of the most importantaffluents of the Nile was discovered by
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