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THE LAKE REGION, 



rawa, or Bahari ya Pili, is a long, narrow form- 

 ation, perhaps 30 miles broad, with 240 miles of 

 circumference, and possibly drained to the Nile 

 by a navigable channel. 



3. That the Nyanza is a water, probably a 

 swamp, but evidently distinct from the two men- 

 tioned above, flooding the lands to the south, 

 showing no signs of depth, and swelling during 

 the low season of the Nile, and vice versa. 



And finally we cannot but conclude that 

 the Northern and N. Western portions of the so- 

 called 'Victoria Nyanza' must be divided into 

 three independent broads or lakes, one of them 

 marshy, reed-margined, and probably shallow, in 

 order to account for the three effluents within a 

 little more than 60 miles. 



KOTE. 



I have printed, as an Appendix to Volume I., 

 a paper Avhich was read out by me before the 

 Royal Geographical Society, on Monday, Decem- 

 ber 11, 1871. It dwells at greater length upon 

 the interesting theme here sketched, and it 

 enters into certain philological details which 

 may be interesting to students of Kisawaliili. 



