chap, ii.] ANOTHER LAKE REPORTED TO EXIST. 103 
was much annoyed that it had been impossible for 
them to carry out the exploration. He foresaw that 
stay-at-home geographers, who, with a comfortable 
arm-chair to sit in, travel so easily with their fingers 
on a map, would ask him why he had not gone from 
such a place to such a place ? why he had not followed 
the Nile to the Luta N’zige lake, and from the lake to 
Gondokoro ? As it happened, it was impossible for 
Speke and Grant to follow the Nile from Karuma :— 
the tribes were fighting with Kamrasi, and no strangers 
could have got through the country. Accordingly they 
procured their information most carefully, completed 
their map, and laid down the reported lake in its sup¬ 
posed position, showing the Nile as both influent and 
effluent precisely as had been explained by the natives. 
Speke expressed his conviction that the Luta N’zige 
must be a second source of the Nile, and that geogra¬ 
phers would be dissatisfied that he had not explored it. 
To me this was most gratifying. I had been much 
disheartened at the idea that the great work was ac¬ 
complished, and that nothing remained for exploration ; 
I even said to Speke, “ Does not one leaf of the laurel 
remain for me ? ” I now heard that the field was not 
only open, but that an additional interest was given to 
the exploration by the proof that the Nile flowed out 
of one great lake, the Victoria, but that it evidently 
