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above. The water is of glassy stillness, and reflects the surrounding coasts like 

 a mirror, but like a pink mirror. The water, in fact, has an almost carmine 

 tinge, and the objects reflected in it are. in their shadows, blood-red. 



It is difficult to understand how previous travellers could have failed 

 to notice that the narrow stiait of water, generally called by the natives- 



107. IN THE JIPANGA FOREST, TOKO 



" Kafuru," connecting T^ake Dweru with Albert Edward was not — as has 

 been depicted hitherto on most maps — a broad lake-like piece of water, 

 but, on the contrary, a narrow and winding channel between rather high, 

 sloping banks or cliffs, which would always confine the water within its 

 present limits. Moreover, the lake, which lies in Southern Toro, and is 

 connected witli Albert Edward by this river-like channel,* is not and 

 * This lake is the original Beatrice Gulf, discovered by Stanley in 1875. 



