. The earth and its inhabitants .. . tributed very irregularly, thus illustrating, as it were, the discrepancies of the climate. In the region of the plateaux the Victoria Nyanza and Somerset Nile receive feeders both from east and west, for the rainfall is here sufiiciently heavy to cause watercourses to converge from all directions in the great lacustrine reservoir. But north of the Albert Nyanza the affluents occur alternately now on one now on the other bank of the Nile. In the section of its course terminating in the No lagoons it receives contributions only from the west, and farther nor
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . tributed very irregularly, thus illustrating, as it were, the discrepancies of the climate. In the region of the plateaux the Victoria Nyanza and Somerset Nile receive feeders both from east and west, for the rainfall is here sufiiciently heavy to cause watercourses to converge from all directions in the great lacustrine reservoir. But north of the Albert Nyanza the affluents occur alternately now on one now on the other bank of the Nile. In the section of its course terminating in the No lagoons it receives contributions only from the west, and farther north only from the Abyssinian highlands lying to the east. Then for a distance of 1,500 miles no more permanent tributaries reach its banks either from the right or the left. Even during the rainy season the gorges opening on its valley send
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