698 General Notes. [November, 
plus waters to the right and to the left as it flows on, feeding, by means 
of the underground channels, what might be called by an observer on 
land seventeen separate lakes, but which are in reality one lake, con- 
nected together underneath the fields of papyri, and by lagoon-like chan- 
nels meandering tortuously enough between detached fields of the most 
prolific reed. The open expanses of water are called by the natives so 
many “rwerus” or lakes; the lagoons connecting them and the reed- 
covered water are known by the name of “Ingezi.” What Speke has 
styled Lake Windermere is one of these rwerus, and is nine miles in 
extreme length and from one to three miles in width. By boiling point 
I ascertained it to be at an altitude of 3760 feet above the ocean and 
about 320 feet above Lake Victoria. The extreme north point of this 
singular lake is north by east from Uhimba south, its extreme southern 
point. Karagwe occupies the whole of its eastern side. Southwest it 
is bounded by Kishakka, west by Muvari, in Ruanda, northwest by 
Mpororo, and northeast by Ankori. At the point where Ankori faces 
Karagwe, the lake contracts, becomes a tumultuous, noisy river, creates 
whirlpools, and dashes itself madly into foam and spray against opposing 
rocks, and finally rolls over a wall of rock ten or twelve feet deep with 
a tremendous uproar, for which the natives call it Morongo, or the’ 
Noisy Falls. , 
Since I left Zanzibar I have traveled 720 miles by land and 1004 
miles (by computation) by water. This in six months is good work. 
Over one hundred positions settled by astronomical observations, for 
you must know that from the very day I got my commission Į strenu- 
ously prepared to fit myself for geographical work, in order that I might 
able to complete Speke, Burton, Baker, and Livingstone’s labors, 
which they left undone. Now Speke’s work is done. What he com- 
menced I have finished. I do not know whether you comprehend the 
drift of this expedition, but I will explain. 
You must know that Speke, in 1858, came to the southwest end of 
Lake Victoria, and from a hill near the lake he discovered the vast body 
of fresh water. Having gazed his fill he returned to England and was 
commissioned to find its outlet. In 1861 and 1862 he marched from 
Zanzibar to Ugawa, when he saw the lake again. At the Ripon Falls 
he saw the lake discharge itself into the Victoria Nile, and went home 
again, imagining that he had done his work. If his work was merely to 
find the outlet of Lake Victoria he completed his task, but if his task 
was to discover the sources of the Nile he had but begun his work. He 
went away without discovering the feeders of Lake Victoria, which 1n 
reality are the Nile’s sources; extreme southern sources, I mean: 
en Baker came to Central Africa and discovered Lake Albert. He 
voyaged sixty miles on the lake, and he ran home also without knowing 
anything of the lake’s sources. Burton went to Taraganika, saw 1t, and 
returned home without knowing its extent, outlet, or affluents. Living- 
