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Mr Pindlay's estimate is still more flattering : 

 ' The first East African Expedition has had scant 

 justice done to it of late, seeing that it was the 

 finest harvest, and that by much the most abund- 

 ant one, of those brilliant discoveries in Eastern 

 Africa so eminentlv fostered bv the Eoval Geo- 

 graphical Society.' 



One wise in his generation whispered into my 

 ear before returning to England, ' Boldly assert 

 that you have discovered the source of the Xile — 

 if you are right, tant mieux, if wrong, you will 

 have made your game before the mistake is 

 found out ! ' I need hardly explain wliy the 

 advice was rejected, nor does it befit me to com- 

 plain that Honesty, in my case at least, has not 

 hitherto proved the best policy. Meruisse satis ! 

 ***** 



Since these lines were penned Time has again 

 proved himself the Avenger. The valuable 

 notes on the Geography of Eastern Africa for- 

 warded by Mr Wakefield enable me to show, 

 almost with a certainty, that the 29,900 square 

 miles assisrned as the area to the ' Victoria Xv- 

 anza' contain at least four, and probably a 

 greater number, of separate waters. 



Mr Keith Johnston, jun., who appended re- 

 marks to the paper in question, observes (p. 333) 



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