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On the Ukara, or the Ukerewe Lake of Equatorial Africa

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"In this paper the author repeated his conviction that the so-called Victoria Nyanza is not a lake, but a lake region. He had found new matter in support of this opinion in the able paper upon Routes in East Africa, published by the Rev. Thomas Wakefield, of Mombasa, in the last volume of the 'Journal' of the Society. As these routes were wholly taken from native authority, the President, Sir Henry Rawlinson, had remarked that the "Pundit system" might be found as useful in Africa as it has proved to be in high Asia. Mr. Wakefield's notes had been ably and judiciously commented upon by Mr. Keith Johnston, and Captain Burton's object was to add emphasis to that geographer's remarks, and to the supplement them with the experiences of a practical traveller"--from abstract.
Type
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Publication date
[1871]
Call number
635844
Creator
Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Edwards Metcalf, 1992.
Dimensions
22 cm
Associated people
Metcalf, Edwards H.
Associated organizations
Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain),
William Clowes and Sons,
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