. Our holiday in Africa . ake Superior being next with an area of 31,750 squaremiles. This lake is the source of the Nile, for thousands ofyears hidden from the sight of white man, and only discoveredabout fifty years ago by the explorer Speke. It is three thou-sand six hundred feet above sea level. Over the Ripon Falls,it pours out its tremendous volume of water to feed the desertlands along this great river for three thousand miles to theMediterranean. This is where the fatal sleeping sickness hascarried off two hundred thousand natives in ten years. Afterinvestigation, it has been decided b
. Our holiday in Africa . ake Superior being next with an area of 31,750 squaremiles. This lake is the source of the Nile, for thousands ofyears hidden from the sight of white man, and only discoveredabout fifty years ago by the explorer Speke. It is three thou-sand six hundred feet above sea level. Over the Ripon Falls,it pours out its tremendous volume of water to feed the desertlands along this great river for three thousand miles to theMediterranean. This is where the fatal sleeping sickness hascarried off two hundred thousand natives in ten years. Afterinvestigation, it has been decided by the scientific men that thissleeping sickness is caused by the bite of the Tsetse Fly, whichinfest the many islands and shores of this great lake. Ac-cordingly, the English government has, by force, removed thenatives two miles back from the lake shore, and taken them en-tirely off the islands. It is supposed that this wholesale remov-al has saved the lives of the remainder of the Baganda Tribe, 41 OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA. VICTORIA NYANZA who inhaljit this region. 1liey could not nnderstand the reasonfor their removal and continued to run back to the islands untilfinally the government officials were compelled to burn theirboats. These shores and islands are covered with beautifultrees, luxuriant vegetation, and looked very inviting as wepassed along. There are hundreds of these islands in the lake,some of them cjuite large, and nearly all have been adjacent shores, wdiere the towns are situated and whereour landings were made, have been cleared of jungle. All treesnear the water have been cut down, and the Tsetse Fly is notdoing as great havoc as formerly. The Tsetse Fly will notlive except in deep shade and near the water. The mosquitoesare also very troublesome on this lake, and particularly on theshallow shores at the landing places. When we anchored for the night we were extracMTlinarilvcareful to use good mosquito net at night and ha\e it welltucked in. The
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