. The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery . er by a dense growthof reeds and water-grasses, which frequently hidesall sign of the water below. These rushy lagoonsthe traveller finds to be a formidable obstacle inhis course. They cannot be crossed on foot, and thepapyrus and cane are often so strong and thickly setthat it is next to impossible to push a boat from onebank to the other. The largest of these rivers andthe most important of the tributaries of the VictoriaNyanza is the stream which Speke called the Kitan-gule, and which Stanley, out of compliment to thePrinc
. The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery . er by a dense growthof reeds and water-grasses, which frequently hidesall sign of the water below. These rushy lagoonsthe traveller finds to be a formidable obstacle inhis course. They cannot be crossed on foot, and thepapyrus and cane are often so strong and thickly setthat it is next to impossible to push a boat from onebank to the other. The largest of these rivers andthe most important of the tributaries of the VictoriaNyanza is the stream which Speke called the Kitan-gule, and which Stanley, out of compliment to thePrincess of Wales, has styled the Alexandra seems as if we were never to see the last of the riverof Egypt. It might reasonably be supposed thatbavin- traced it to its home in the great VictoriaLake, we should have been ready confidently to solvethat world-old puzzle, which was so long consideredequivalent to a demand for the impossible- ■ <nlqucerere Nili. But not at all. Apart from theBaringo and Muta Nzige* mysteries, it has been dis- 5s <5. NEW NILE PUZZLES. 105 covered that Bakers Jake sends off a second effluentto the north in addition to that which flows pastGondokoro ; that Lake Ibrahim does not pour all itswaters into the Albert Nyanza, but despatches abranch into the wilderness; while the Victoria Lakealso is said to have a double outlet. What becomesof these wandering waters, whether they ultimatelyfind their way back to the parent stream, or go off toform new lakes of their own or reinforce alien rivers,no one as yet can exactly say. But here, in theAlexandra Nile, Mr. Stanley tells us he has discovereda new ramification of this wonderful river-system,leadino- to a new chain of lakes and lake claim that this is to be regarded as a continua-tion of the main stream of the Nile derives someforce from the fact, previously observed and com-mented on by Speke and Grant, that it apparentlycontributes almost as much water to the lake as flowsout of
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