AND THE VICTORIA NYANZA 



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unable to give information, we can picture tlie innumeralile disait}:oint- 

 ments that >Speke and Grant might have sustained as thev explored gulf 

 after gulf, creek after creek, inlet after inlet, which the great lake pushed 

 towards the nortli, and all of which save one were blind alleys. 



There is nothing about the beautiful Napoleon Gulf as one enters it 

 frono the south to show why it, more than any other bav or inlet of the 

 lake, should be the issue of the Nile, except ]ier]iaps that as you near 



58. napoleon gulf (lookinli south) am) the " how uf white fanlis 

 (an ancient rocky barrier) 



the northern end of the gulf you may discern a slight, a very slight, 

 current tending northwards. But this current is faintly discernible right 

 across the lake, north-eastwards, from tlie mouth of the Kagera (the most 

 important feeder of the Victoria Nyanza) towards the Busoga coast. 

 Nevertheless, the winds that sweep over the Victoria Lake are given to 

 causing false tides and false currents, and the casual traveller would not 

 be particularly struck with the drifting of vegetation which certainly does 

 occur from the mouth of the Kagera towards the Kipon Falls. At the 



