. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . Vopyriijht, 190S, by Pictorial ^ews THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE CONNECTICUT UPON THE RETURN OF THE FLEET. 1^, ., ^WP■^^^.w^^m wal^ iHiHiy^F ^^H^Vffifft m^Hi H r^^fe^^ l^/^^ ^H^n^aHm K. ^HI^BHmS. •2 2 Kbeg S ° O DOWN THE VICTORIA NILE 137 The Albert Nyanza lies at a height of two thousand three hun-dred feet above sea level, so t
. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the course of his travels . Vopyriijht, 190S, by Pictorial ^ews THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE CONNECTICUT UPON THE RETURN OF THE FLEET. 1^, ., ^WP■^^^.w^^m wal^ iHiHiy^F ^^H^Vffifft m^Hi H r^^fe^^ l^/^^ ^H^n^aHm K. ^HI^BHmS. •2 2 Kbeg S ° O DOWN THE VICTORIA NILE 137 The Albert Nyanza lies at a height of two thousand three hun-dred feet above sea level, so that in its first two hundred miles the Niledescends more than one-third of its whole fall. This is done in twolong stretches of rapids, one about thirty miles long below the RiponFalls, and another of the same length above the Murchison and below these rapids it flows level and smooth, midway inits course running through another large body of water. Lake Chi-oga, which, like the other two lakes, forms one of the feeders of theNile. With this necessary explanation, we can go on in our path downthe Victoria Nile, the first part of which must be made in a marchthrough the forest to Kakindu, the head of navigation on the Nile;the second part by canoes or motorboats down the stream and acrossLake Chioga; the third part again through the forest pa
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