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dokoro is surrounded on three sides by small granitic 

 hills, ranging from 2000 to 4000 feet, which are inter- 

 sected by the Nile coming from the south, as the king 

 of the Bari country says, from 200 to 300 miles ; " 

 which is equivalent to saying from the N'yanza, as it 

 lies exactly on the place he directs us to. " The 

 mean annual temperature there is 83. 1 Fahr. The 

 wettest months in the year are February, March, 

 April, May, and August. Thunder accompanies 

 nearly all the storms, and earthquakes are prevalent. 

 The Nile begins to rise at Gondokoro in May, and 

 keeps increasing till September. The country from 

 Gondokoro southwards entirely changes from the 

 swampy nature which exists northwards of it, and the 

 people there begin to talk a different language to 

 those in the north, and are very fond of eating mice. 

 The winds prevail from the east, rarely coming from 

 the west." 



As the Arabs do not keep thermometers, scientific 

 instruments, or properly distributed months and sea- 

 sons, I must say for them that from 2 to 6 south 

 latitude we found the mean temperature in the hottest 

 month, August, to be only 80 ; that Uganda must 

 be quite 4000 feet, to be higher than the lake which 

 it borders ; that the height of the rainy season is dur- 

 ing the months of February, March, April, and May ; 

 and that the rivers, as we see by the Malagarazi, in- 

 crease more after than before that date. Though it 

 appears that the precession of the rain tends from the 



