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unable to give infortnation, we can |)ieture the innumerable disappoint- 

 ments that Speke and (jrrant might have sustained as thev explored gulf 

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

 towards the noitli, and all dF which save one were bHnd allevs. 



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

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

 lake, should be the issue of the Nile, exce])t jx'rhaps that as vou near 



58. napoleon gulf (looking south) and the "row ok white fangs 

 (an ancient rocky barrier) 



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

 current tending northwards. But this current is faintly discernible right 

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

 important feeder of the Victoria Nyanza) towards the Jiusoga 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 Riiion Falls. At the 



