CHARACTERISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION OF LAKES 619 
are to be found in it, hunting for a kind of small fish that lives 
in the mud. 
Lake Elmetaita, in lat. 0° 25' S., long. S6° 16' E., receives two 
rivers, the Kariandusi and the Guasso Nagut, but has no outlet ; its 
level is being lowered by evaporation. The water is bitter and salt, 
but clear and pure, and the only signs of animal life in it are some 
insect-larvae and small crustaceans. Flocks of pink flamingoes feed 
on the masses of algae, which in places impart a deep green colour to 
the water. 
Lake Naivasha, measuring some 13 miles each way, is situated in 
lat. 0° W S., long. 36° 24' E., and is 6135 feet above sea-level ; it 
receives a tributary, the Murendat, but has no outlet. Its basin 
is closed to the north by the ridge of Mount Burn, beyond which are 
the basins of the smaller lakes Nakuro and Elmetaita, followed in turn 
by those of Losuguta and Baringo. 
Lake Nakuro, a salt lake in lat. 0° 20' S., long. 36° 9' E., at an 
elevation of 5668 feet, receives the Enderit. 
Lake Losuguta, in lat. 0° 15' N., long. 36° 8' E., Hes 3050 feet 
above sea-level, and is long and narrow\ One shore is a precipice 
1900 feet in height, and the opposite one is formed of a series of 
terraces which rise one above another to the summit of Doenyo 
Lugurumut. The waters of the lake are salt and sulphurous, and 
have emetic properties. No life is present in the lake, with the 
exception of dense masses of algae (as in Lake Elmetaita), which form 
food for vast flocks of pink flamingoes. The putrid sulphurous 
waters seem to kill whatever they touch, the grass round the lake 
being yellow, and trees standing near the shore, though recently 
submerged, as shown by leaves still attached to them, being 
dead. 
Lake Baringo, in lat. 0" 43' N., long. 36° 6' E., formerly had an 
outlet to the north, and was possibly one of the sources of the Nile ; 
it is surrounded by raised beaches, indicating that it once stood at a 
much higher level. It is 3325 feet above sea-level, and the eastern 
wall is in places a single face of rock, 2000 feet in height. The 
length of the lake is about 18 miles. 
Lake Sugota was described by Cavendish^ in 1898 as a sheet 
of water situated between Lake Baringo and Lake Rudolf, 30 miles 
due south of the latter, at an altitude of 1300 feet, running north 
and south for about 25 miles, the southern portion trending in a 
south-westerly direction for about 10 miles. Its shores are very barren, 
he says, entirely enclosed by mountains, and three islands near the east 
shore are also barren. Near the north end of the lake a smouldering 
^ "Through Somaliland and around and south of Lake Rudolf," Geogr. Journ.y 
vol. xi. p. 392, 1898. 
