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along a ravine, at the bottom of which murmured the 
infant stream Loliugati. On coming to its source we 
ascended a steep slope until we stood upon the summit of 
a grassy ridge at the height of 5600 feet by aneroid. 
Not until we had descended about a mile to the valley 
of Uyagoma did I recognize the importance of this ridge 
as the water-parting between one of the feeders of Lake 
Victoria and the source of the Malagarazi, the principal 
affluent of Lake Tanganika. 
NAPOLEON CHANNEL, LAKE VICTORIA. 
Though by striking across Uhlia due west or to the 
south-west we should again have reached the Alexandra 
Nile and the affluents of the Alexandra Lake, our future 
course was destined never to cross another stream or 
rivulet that supplied the great river which flows through 
the land of Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea. 
From the 17th of January, 1875, up to the 7th of 
April, 1876, we had been engagedintracing the extreme 
southern sources of the Nile, from the marshy plains and 
