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of detail, such as making Mazita, and perhaps 

 Ukewere, insular instead of peninsular features. 

 Nor could I hear a word beyond the old legend 

 current amongst African tribes, from Somaliland 

 to the Mozambique, touching white men and 

 ships navigating a lake or a river in the interior. 

 The Kazeh people, as I ascertained by consulting 

 them, Knoblecher in hand, equally ignored the 

 familiar tribal names of Nyam-Nyam, Eungo, 

 Mundu, Dor, Jur, Kek, Nuelir, and the Shilluks, 

 West, with the Dinkas, East of the Nile. Their 

 Bari was simply 'Bahri ' — Accolae of the sea or 

 river. But Capt. Speke had discovered on ' that 

 broad open lake,' not only the ' sources of some 

 great river,' not only the Palus Orientalis Nili, but 

 ' The Sources of the Nile ' : he had raised the 

 veil of Isis, he had settled for ever the ' mystery 

 of old Nilus' origin.' The subject soon proved 

 too sore for discussion, and evidently at that 

 time my companion began to prepare for a future 

 campaign, by lavishly retouching his maps, and 

 by barring the Upper Tanganyika from any pos- 

 sible connection with the northern basin. 



During the second expedition Capt. Speke 

 left Kazeh in May, 1861, and travelled to the 

 N. West, without ever sighting the ' broad sur- 

 face.' Living with King Rumanika of Karagvvah, 



