. Our holiday in Africa . ^to the north amid enchanting scenery, is most impressive. Onecan well imagine how elated the explorer Speke must havefelt when, after enduring countless hardships, he at last lookedupon and solved one of the great mysteries of the ancients,the source of the Nile. The channel where this fall makesits way out of the lake has abrupt banks about one hundredfeet high, and nature has built a rock dam across this channel,about twelve hundred feet long, forty feet high and thirtyfeet thick. The strata of rock is set upon the edge, and atfirst sight looks as though it was bui
. Our holiday in Africa . ^to the north amid enchanting scenery, is most impressive. Onecan well imagine how elated the explorer Speke must havefelt when, after enduring countless hardships, he at last lookedupon and solved one of the great mysteries of the ancients,the source of the Nile. The channel where this fall makesits way out of the lake has abrupt banks about one hundredfeet high, and nature has built a rock dam across this channel,about twelve hundred feet long, forty feet high and thirtyfeet thick. The strata of rock is set upon the edge, and atfirst sight looks as though it was built by man. It is so reg-ular and straight. The water has broken through this naturaldam in three places. At present there is not much need ofelectric power, but if this country develops, as is expected, ina few years a great electric power plant will no doubt be 5f OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA. UGANDA erected, and abundant power furnished for all purposes, in alldirections for many miles. There is a newly built railroad from this place, Jinja,sixty-one miles down the Nile, to the place where the riverbecomes navigable, and on this part of the Nile the Englishgovernment has a small steamer, making a run of about onehundred and fift}- miles. The engineer of this steamer cameout with us on the Dunvegan Castle, after being home on afurlough. He has been in this country several years and tellsus that his boat has more cotton, coffee and peanuts than itcan carry, and that the government will soon put on anothersteamer. Some people already go down the Nile by this routevia Khartum to the Mediterranean. In order to do this one would take the railway from Jinjafor sixty-one miles, the-n the small steamer above mentionedfor about one hundred and fifty miles to a point wdiere theNile is too rocky and swift for navigation. Along this partof the river for three hundred miles the traveler
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