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APPEXDIX. 



Briefly to resume : Mr Wakefield's very valuable 

 ' Routes ' teach us these novelties : 



1. That the Baringo is a Lake distinct from the so- 

 called Victoria Nyanza ; that it has a northern effluent, 

 the JNyarus, and consequently that its waters are sweet. 



2. That the Nyanja, Ukara, Ukerewe, Garava or Bahari 

 ya Pili, is a long narrow formation like the Baringo, per- 

 haps 20 miles broad, with 240 of circumference, and 

 possibly drained to the White River or true JNile by a 

 navigable channel. 



And I have long ago come to the following con- 

 clusions : 



1. That the 30,000 square miles representing upon our 

 maps the area of the so-called Victoria Nyanza represent 

 not a lake, but a Lake Region. 



2. That the Victoria Nyanza Proper is a water — pos- 

 sibly a swamp — distinct from the two mentioned above, 

 flooding the lands to the south, showing no sign of depth 

 and swelling during the hot season of the Nile, and vice 

 versa. 



3. That the Northern and N. Western portions of the 

 so-called ' Victoria JNyanza ' must be divided into sundry 

 independent broads or lakes, one of them marshy, reed- 

 margined, and probably shallow, in order to account 

 for three large effluents within a little more than 60 

 miles. 



I cannot finish these lines without expressing my gra- 

 titude to Mr Wakefield for the interesting information 

 with which he supplied us. He has returned to his labours 

 at Mombasah, amongst the Wasawahili and the Wanyika, 

 and as he has, I am assured by my friend Captain George, 



