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Mediterranean, It receives its waters primarily from the great 

 lake Victoria Nyanza, which lies under the equator, and its upper 

 course is fed by tributary streams of great size, but for the last 



1,200 miles of its course it has not a single affluent. It drains an 

 area of more than 1,000,000 square miles. 



The Indian Ocean receives numerous rivers; but the only 

 ^reat river of South Africa which enters that ocean is the Zambesi, 



