AND THE NILE 



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Free JState boundary, the water is intensely salt, and furnishes when 

 evaporated a salt of considerable commercial value. The photograph 

 which is given here represents a corner of this lake, showing the abrupt 

 edge of the crater and the banks of mud which the natives have made to 



Io6. P.4.\DA.\CS ON THE DCKRA KIVER 



enclose, for evaporation purposes, the shallow water near the shore. This salt 

 lake of Katwe is certainly a very remarkable sight, seen from the heights 



