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says, it is a corroboratioii of the Arabs' stories that 

 coffee grows, and which place, by fair computation of 

 the distances given as their travelling rates, I believe 

 to be in about 1 north lat To the east of this land, 

 at no great distance from the shore, he described the 

 island of Kitiri as occupied by a tribe called "\Vatiri, 

 who also grow coffee ; and there the sea was of such 

 great extent, and when winds blew was so boisterous, 

 that the canoes, although as large as the Tanganyika 

 ones (which he had also seen), did not trust them- 

 selves upon it. 



Xow supposing, for instance, that there is no over- 

 flow of water at the north end of the X'yanza, still, 

 from its altitude being so great in comparison with 

 the Xile at Gondokoro, it must be a considerable 

 contributor to that river's volume, if only by the 

 ordinary process of percolation. If further proof is 

 required about the extent of the iX'yanza, all the 

 Arabs say that, on passing through the Karagwah 

 district, in latitude 1 south, they can see from the 

 summit of a high mountain its expansive and bound- 

 less waters extending away to the eastward as far as 

 the eye can reach. The lake has the credit of being 

 very deep, which I cannot believe. It certainly bears 

 the appearance of the temporary deposit of a vast 

 flood overspreading a large flat surface, rather than 

 the usual characteristics of a lake or inland sea, lying 

 in deep hollows, or shut in, like the Tanganyika, by 

 mountains. The islands about it are low hill-tops, 



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