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ence of snowy feeders. Some 3 r ears ago a Swiss traveller 

 drew my attention to the fact that glacier-water would ex- 

 plain the term White river as opposed to Blue river. 

 The quantity of melted snow or glacier- water which finds 

 its way to the true Xile may be comparatively inconsider- 

 able, but that little may perhaps modify the colourless 

 complexion of rain-water when its suspended matter has 

 been deposited, and distinguish it from the pure azure of 

 a stream issuing from a Lake Geneva. In 1857 Captain 

 Speke, an experienced Himalayan, easily detected, when 

 drinking from the Pangar-ni or Ptiifu river, the rough 

 flavour of snow water. 



Hore important, however, than Baringo is the new 

 Lake announced to us by Mr Wakefield's African Pandit, 

 Sadi bin Ahedi. The latter ignoring Xyanza, calls it Gy- 

 anja, possibly a dialectic variety, and therefore a difference 

 neither to be dwelt upon too much nor wholly to be neg- 

 lected. Of greater value is the name Bahari ya Pili, or 

 Second Sea, not called so, we are expressly informed, be- 

 cause inland of the First Sea — Indian Ocean — but evi- 

 dently because leading to a neighbouring water on the 

 west. Host suggestive of all, and therefore adopted by 

 me, is the term ' Bahari ya Ukara/ or Sea of Ukara, the 

 latter being the region on the Eastern shore. Here we 

 detect the true origin of the ancient Garava, and of Cap- 

 tain Speke's Ukewere, which he applied to a peninsula 

 projecting from the Eastern shore, and which the Wan- 

 yamwezi, translating ' island water/ gave to the Oriental 

 portion of the so-called Victoria Xyanza. 



Respecting the length of the Ukara Lake, Sadi was 

 informed that it could be crossed by canoes in 6 full days, 

 paddling from sunrise to sunset ; but if the men went on 



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