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414 Geographical Notices. 
in order to reach the great lake Nyanza, the position of which 
had been pointed out to him by the Arabs, who asserted that it 
was much longer and larger than Tanganyika, from which it is 
separated by about 200 miles. In this journey Captain Speke, 
accompanied by his faithful Belooches, passed through the dis- 
trict where the chief iron works of the country are carried on; 
the native blacksmiths smelting the ore with charcoal. 
e great lake Nyanza was found to occupy the position as- 
signed to it by the Arabs, and the E. longitude being very nearly 
that of Kazé, viz., 32° 47’,* its southern end was fixed at 2° 30’ 
S. lat. Ascending a hill and looking northwards, the enter- 
prising traveller could discern nothing beyond the islands termed 
erewe, but a vast interior sheet of water, which, according to 
ose whose information had hitherto proved correct, ex- 
tended northwards for upwards of 300 miles. Captain Speke, 
who estimates the breadth of this internal sea at 90 miles near 
its southern end, further ascertained that it is fed not only by 
streams flowing from the mountains which separate it from Lake 
a but also by other streams, many of which meander- 
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which when supersaturated by the rains burst and overflow the 
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pressions. 
“The physical configuration of the land to the east of the 
great Nyanza Lake is indeed strongly in favor of this view. On 
that side, and at a distance of about 200 miles from its banks, 
the eastern coast range of Africa rises from 6000 feet in the lati- 
tude of Zanzibar (where it was passed by our travellers) into @ 
lofty range or cluster, of which Kilimanjaro forms the southern 
and Kenia a northern peak. : 
“If the assertion of Rebmann and Krapf be accepted, that 
perpetual snow lies on those mountains, though the able criti 
essay of Cooley} had induced me to suppose that these mission- 
tk ba * Lunar observations were made at this station. 
+ See Cooley’s “Inner Africa Laid Open,” p. 126. 
