Africa . THE VICTORIA NYAXZA. by completely circumnavigating the lake in eighty daysin the spring of 1875. He thus demonstrated the unityof this vast inland sea, which is greater in superficial areathan Bavaria or Scotland. VICTORIA NYANZA. 319 We shall now follow rapidly Mr. Stanleys adventurousvoyage in Ins boat the Lady Alice round the coast ofthe great Nyanza, the largest of African lakes, noting thechief points in his cruise. Sailing from Kagehyi, where he launched out afterthe long overland inarch, and turning eastward into thegulf of the lake, which he named after Captain Speke,the mout
Africa . THE VICTORIA NYAXZA. by completely circumnavigating the lake in eighty daysin the spring of 1875. He thus demonstrated the unityof this vast inland sea, which is greater in superficial areathan Bavaria or Scotland. VICTORIA NYANZA. 319 We shall now follow rapidly Mr. Stanleys adventurousvoyage in Ins boat the Lady Alice round the coast ofthe great Nyanza, the largest of African lakes, noting thechief points in his cruise. Sailing from Kagehyi, where he launched out afterthe long overland inarch, and turning eastward into thegulf of the lake, which he named after Captain Speke,the mouth of the Shimeeyu, the largest tributary of thelake from the south, and in all probability the longestsource stream of the Nile, is reached. Here it rushes intothe lake by a mouth winch is a mile in width, but whichcontracts at some distance upward to 400 yards. At thehead of the gulf, the south-eastern corner of the Nyanza,we come to Ututwa, a country inhabited by a tall andslender people carrying formid
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