Exploration of the sources of the Nile. 77 
riably says it runs from mouth to head. In a southerly direction the 
Uaganda boatmen go as far as the island of kerewé, which I saw on 
like Dr. Krapf, merely narrated what th rd. .As salt-islands were 
visited by the natives in search of that mineral, the surrounding waters 
naturally were conside t by them, deprived as they were of its 
red sal 
connecting links, which included the whole area of ground under con- 
sideration within the limits of the drainage system of the Nile. The 
Arabs, who, it is now very clear, had heard of everything in connexion 
tells us of a river trending from the river: Newey, by Mount Kenia, 
towards the Nile. If such is the case, it must be a feeder to the Baringa, 
whose waters pass off by the Asua river into the Nile, for the whole 
‘asia immediately on the eastern side of the Victoria Nyanza is said 
ashondé, and roceeding north along the boundary coast of Nyanza to 
the valley of Katonga, which, as situated on the quarter of the lake, is 
constantly in view, the land above the lake is beautiful, composed of low 
With bogey bottoms, as many as one to every mile, even counting at one 
Period a much fuller stream than at the present day, when the ol 
Was on the present surface of the water, and its breadth was double that 
which it now presents. The Mountains of the Moon are wearing down, 
and so is Africa, Crossing over the Equator altogether, the conformation 
increased in beauty; the drain- 
" 8Ge@ system was found the opposite, clearly showing where in the north 
slope of Africa one stream, the Mweranga, of moderate dimensions, said 
to arise in the Lake, flowed north, and joined the Nile in the kingdom 
of Unyroro, where its name is changed to Thafa. Far on, another stream, 
