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MR WAKEFIELD'S NOTES. 



that ' the arguments which Captain Eurton used 

 in recommending a division of the jN^yanza had 

 not a sufficient basis of proof to give them 

 moment, is shown by the acceptance of the lake 

 as one sheet of water by the whole geographical 

 world.' The mapper will readily understand 

 that it is much more convenient to have a lake 

 neatly traced, and painted sky-blue like the 

 Damascus swamps, than to split it up as I did : 

 a volume published by the late Mr Mac queen and 

 myself (The Nile Basin. London : Tinsleys, 1864) 

 gave a sketch of what was actually seen by the 

 second expedition, and the aspect of disjecta 

 membra is not inviting. Afterwards, liowever 

 (p. 334), Mr Johnston remarks, ' Captain Bur- 

 ton's recommendation would seem to receive 

 some slight support from the new information 

 obtained by Mr Wakefield,* to which I add that 

 the language might have been less hesitating. 

 The ' Notes on the Geography of Eastern Africa ' 

 establish the existence of two new lakes. 



The first is that which we named from hear- 

 say, Bahari ya Ngo or Baliari Ngo (Sea, i. e. 

 water of Ngo) : Mr Wakefield prefers ' Barmgo, 

 or canoe,' possibly so called from its forin.^ 



^ This birds-eye view and comprelicnsive idea of aliape re- 

 gardiug a feature so considerable does not appear to me African. 



