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send four others, which have been kept by me until I had an opportunity to 

 send them. Three at least I expected to put in person into the hands of one 

 of Gordon's officers ; but it was not fated to be so. From Ujiji I shall send 

 the duplicates of these letters to the coast; and, before I quite leave that port, 

 I expect to possess other geographical items to transmit to you. 



"Gordon Pasha was kind enough to send me a 'Daily Telegraph' of 

 December 24th, 1874, and a ' Pall-Mall Gazette ' of the same month, which I 

 received in Uganda just before starting for the Albert Nyanza. In the 'Daily 

 Telegraph' I saw a short letter from Cameron, dated May 3rd, 1873, wherein 

 he says he has discovered the outlet of the Tanganyika to be the Lukuga. 

 Cameron has been fortunate and energetic, and deserves credit for the dis- 

 covery. But he says he has not quite circumnavigated the Tanganyika, 

 because he did not think it worth while, after discovering the Lukuga. It 

 may be, Cameron, by this omission, has left me something to discover in this 

 quarter ; but whether or not, the ' Lady Alice ' shall not quit the waters of 

 that lake until I have finished the two-thirds left unvisited by me on my first 

 expedition. In the ' Pall Mall Gazette ' I read a more startling statement, 

 which deserves from me as flat a contradiction as no doubt it has received 

 from Colonel Grant. The article stated that Colonel Long, of the Egyptian 

 service, had declared that he had just returned from a visit to the King of 

 Uganda, and had discovered, to his surprise, that Lake Victoria was a body 

 of water about twelve miles in width ! 



" Now, I do know it as a fact that Colonel Long, or Long Bey, was in 

 Uganda July, 1873 ; but if he states that the Victoria Nyanza is only twelve 

 miles in width, he states what every snub-nosed urchin in Uganda would de- 

 clare to be astounding nonsense. The width of twelve miles is what I would 

 give to Murchison Bay — a portion of which is visible from Kibuga, one of 

 the Emperor's capitals. If Monsieur Linant de Belief onds, of the Egyptian 

 service, who discovered me in Uganda, is now in Europe, he is requested to 

 publish his opinion of Lake Victoria, even from what he saw of it from Usa- 

 vara. The ' Pall Mall Gazette ' adds that it was always the opinion of Cap- 

 tain Burton that Speke had exaggerated the extent of Lake Victoria. Last 

 year I sent you a map of the southern, eastern, northern, and north-west 

 coasts of Lake Victoria. Enclosed in this packet you will find a sketch map 

 of the south-west coast, with which you may compare Speke's hypothetical 

 outline of the Victoria Lake, and judge for yourselves whether Speke has been 

 guilty of much exaggeration. "Henry M. Stanley." 



The subjoined letters were received by the same mail which brought Mr. 

 Stanley's despatches, by the parents of his European attendant: — 



" Lake Victoria Nyanza. 

 " My Dear Parents — I daresay you will think it strange not hearing 



