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of the Nile, which he named the Alexandrian Nile, and 
formed the idea that the ultimate sources of the river of 
Egypt would be found in other lakes. Still, this mystery 
was unsolved. He also visited the court of Rumanika, a 
gentle, kind old native king, and spent some pleasant time 
with him in Karagwe. He also met with Mirambo, a 
robber chief, who ravaged a district of ninety thousand 
square miles, and formed an alliance of brotherhood with 
him. By this means he doubtless escaped his bloodthirsty 
attentions, and went on his journey in peace. 
Messrs. Wilson and Felkin, of the Church Missionary 
Society, in their recently published volume on " Uganda 
and the Egyptian Soudan," assert that the final source of the 
Nile is to be found in the Albert Nyanza. Mr. Felkin thus 
sums up the result of his geographical explorations : " The 
mystery which for so many ages has enveloped the mighty 
river is now solved, and lies open before me ; for I have 
been permitted to trace the Nile through Egypt up to the 
Victoria Lake, and thence to its home in the Albert Nyanza, 
and I claim the honour of being the first Englishman who 
has seen both the Victoria, and Albert Lakes, and returned 
in safety to England." It would seem as if successive 
explorers were destined to unravel the mysteries yet remain- 
ing in connection with the Central African lake system, so 
that conjecture shall be replaced by certainty, and proba- 
bilities by hard facts. 
Lieutenants Cameron and Murphy, accompanied by Dr. 
Dillon, come next in our list of explorers. They started 
for Lake Tanganyika, in 1873, in search of Livingstone ; 
but by the time they had arrived at Unyanyembe, they were 
all sick with the malarious fever of the coast. Six hundred 
miles, " straight as the crow flies," have to be traversed, 
through malarious marshes, Mirambo's savages, tsetse flies, 
