REGENERATION OF THE DARK CONTINENT. 
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Mediterranean. It receives its waters primarily from the great 
lake Victoria Nyanza, which lies under the equator, and its upper 
course is fed by tributary streams of great size, but for the last 
1,200 miles of its course it has not a single affluent. It drains an 
area of more than 1,000,000 square miles. 
The Indian Ocean receives numerous rivers; but the only 
great river of South Africa which enters that ocean is the Zambesi, 
