[96] Whose encyclopædic work on the Galas will soon be published. Mr. Wakefield died in 1902. [97] Dweru, like Nyanza, is a very common Bantu word which is applied equally to lake and river. It simply means “whiteness.” With different prefixes it becomes Mweru, Jeru, and so forth. [98] In giving extracts from this as from other works of Nile explorers the present writer often summarises. He also employs sometimes more modern spelling in scientific nomenclature to avoid puzzling the reader habituated to the most recent descriptions. [99] Vide chap. ix. p. 107. [100] This stream, joining others from farther east, enters the Mountain Nile near the bifurcation of the Giraffe River.--H. H. J. [101] Khor Kos flows into the Oguelokur, and thus into the Bahr-az-Ziraf. See chap. xxvi. [102] The distribution of the branching Hyphæne Fan palm is very peculiar. It is found right across the Sahara, south of latitude 25°, to the vicinity of the Atlantic. It avoids the better watered regions of Nigeria and the Bahr-al-Ghazal, but on the east extends across Somaliland and down the coast to Mombasa.--H. H. J. [103] Probably Emin refers to the lanky _Cercopithecus patas_. [104] Really a plantain-eater--_Schizorhis_ or _Gymnoschizorhis_.--H. H. J. [105] The white-eared Kob antelope.--H. H. J. [106] The Kafuru. This was re-examined by the author of this book. It is a narrow winding channel passing between high banks. In spite of the author’s delineation of this feature in his book, “The Uganda Protectorate,” map-makers still continue to draw it as a lake-like straight arm connecting the Albert Edward with Dweru. [107] Dweru, as already explained, merely means a white surface or sheet of water. [108] This word is the name of one of the tributaries of the Kagera. [109] M. Dècle travelled overland from the Cape of Good Hope to the Victoria Nile in 1892–1894. [110] Dr. Kandt (who first correctly mapped Lake Kivu) traced the course of the important Nyavarongo and Akanyaru tributaries of the Kagera. This learned explorer died in 1901. [111] Lugard mapped much of the country between Uganda and Ruwenzori and discovered Lake Wamala in western Uganda. [112] Mr Jackson’s magnificent zoölogical collections, especially in mammals, birds, and butterflies, have, with those of Mr. Oscar Neumann, done much to illustrate the fauna of southern Nileland. [113] It is said that the contribution to the Nile waters from the great Victoria Nyanza is not more considerable than the maximum discharge of one of the great canals in Egypt. Much of the volume of the Victoria Nile is spread out to waste and evaporate in the Kioga-Kwania Lake, which also receives the heavy rainfall of north and west Elgon.