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Koute Xo. 5, from ' Lake Xyanza ' to Lake 

 Baringo, proves conclusively that Lake Baringo is 

 not a vast salt marsh, or perhaps a sort of back- 

 water, ' connected with the Victoria Xyanza by 

 a strait, at the same distance from the East of 

 Bipon Falls as the Katonga river is to the West.' 

 Kor is it a lake without effluent : in this matter 

 it has evidently been confused with the lately 

 heard of saline Lake Xairvasha or Balibali, S. 

 West of Doenyo Ebor (Mont Blanc), alias Kenia. 

 Native report supplies it with the Xorthern 

 Nyarus, an outfall, the old Tliambiri or Tubi- 

 rih, and Meri, afterwards called Lsua, and Asua, 

 the latter two words probably corrupted from 

 Nyarus. 



Ear more important, however, is the new lake 

 which Mr Wakefield's informant, Sadi bin Ahedi, 

 ignoring Xyanza, calls 'Xyanja' and ' Bahari 

 ya Pili,' or second Sea, not, as we are expressly 

 warned, because inland of the first sea or Indian 

 Ocean, but clearly because leading to a first, and, 

 lastly, called *Bahari ya L^kara,' this being the 

 name of the region on the East shore. Here we 

 at once detect the origui of the ancient Garava, 

 and the modern Ukerewe which the Wanyam- 

 wezi applied to the oriental portion of the sup- 

 posed ' Victoria Nyanza.' Bespecting the width 



