76 Geographical Notices. 
For an illustration of the relations of the Victoria Nyanza to 
Lake Tanganika, and the River Shire, the reader may consult 
to advantage a map by Mr. Ernest Sandoz in the erican 
Geographical Society’s Proceedings, October, 1862. 
Capt. Speke’s narrative begins with reminding his hearers 
that his observations are the results of two visits to the region, 
and that he has not followed the river from head to foot, but 
has tracked it down, occasionally touching upon it. His state 
ment blends native information with his own experiences. He 
then continues,— i 
“ After returning to Unyanyembi (the old point) 3° S. of the lake, in 
1861, I struck upon a new route, which I imagined, from the unsophis- 
ticated depositions of the ivory merchants, would lead me to a creek om 
the westerly flank af the Nyanza, situated on the southern boundary of 
Karagwé. Geographical definitions were here again found wanting, 
for, instead of tne ereek to the great lake appearing, a new lake was 
now fast d x 
south and east flanks of Karagwé, in form a mountain valley, is sul 
that the lake receives its greatest terrestrial supply of water, through ie 
the medium of the Kitangulé River, which, in draining the aforesaid a 
Luero-lo-Urigi, drains off the superfluous waters of many minor lakes — 
as the Akenyara in Urnndi; the Luchura, which is the second of — 
a chain including the Akenyara; the Ingezi and Kara imé; and the 
little Winandermere, which in Karagwé lies below the capital on 1t8 — 
southeastern corner. None of these lakes are large—mere puddles in — 
comparison to the great Victoria Nyanza; but still the Kitangulé, after 
receiving all their contributions, is a noble river, low sunk like a huge PS 
eanal, about 80 yards across, with a velocity ef about 4 miles an hour — 
which appears equal to the Nile itself, as soon as it issues from the lake a 
by the Ripon Falls. The question naturally suggests itself, What forms 
these lakes ?—whence originate their waters? It is simply this: the 
Mountains of the Moon, in which they lie, encireling the northern end 
and the Tanganyika Lake, are exposed to the influences of the rainy Zone, 
where I observed, in 1862, no less than 238 year Oe ag | 
ones. Mashondé, in the upper portion of Uganda, 18 
the first place where, in this second expedition ie 
Victoria Lake, called in these more northern eo : 
(lo-of) Luta (dead) Nzigé (locust), in consequence of the reputed fact 
that flights of locusts, in endeavoring to cross t opp’ 
down from fatigue, unable to accom 
wing, and, perishing in the lake, have been found dead in den 
by the boatmen. But, like the word Nyanza, it i i 
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8 greatest difficulty in endeavoring to‘ put together the information 
