196 Notes 07 i the CoTigo River . 
The wilful misrepresentation is couched in these 
words : “ The reports obtained by Livingstone are 
if anything favourable to the unity of the Victoria 
Nyanza (Ukerewe, Ukara,) because along with it 
he names only such lakes as were already known 
to have a separate existence from it.” As several 
were recognized, ergo it is one! Dr. Livingstone 
heard from independent sources that the so-called 
Victoria Nyanza is a lake region, not a lake; his 
account of the Okara (Ukara), and the three or 
four waters run into a single huge sheet, is substan¬ 
tially the same as that which, after a study of the 
Rev. Mr. Wakefields Reports I offered to the 
Royal Geographical Society, and which I subse¬ 
quently published in “ Zanzibar City, Island, and 
Coast.” You, Dr. Behm, are apparently satisfied 
with a lake drained by an inverted delta of half-a- 
dozen issues-—I am not. Nor can I agree with 
you that “ whether the Victoria Nyanza is one 
lake or several is a point of detail of less import¬ 
ance,” when it has disfigured the best maps of 
Africa for nearly a score of years. The last intelli¬ 
gence concerning the “ unity” of the lake is from 
Colonel C. C. Long, a staff-officer in the ser¬ 
vice of His Highness the Khedive, who was sent 
by Colonel Gordon on a friendly mission to King 
Mtesa of Uganda. With permission to descend 
“ Murchison Creek,” and to view “ Lake Victoria 
Nyanza,” Colonel Long, after a march of three hours, 
