250 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

being 27' N., where the Victoria Nile leaves the Lake on the north, and 2 27' S. (the head of Jordan's Nullah) on the south, the extreme length thus being about 230 miles. The eastern and western limits are not well known, but approximately 30 40' E. longitude on the west, and 34 50' E. longitude on the east, thus giving a total breadth of about 220 miles.

The name Nyanza or Nyanja means " sea " in the various lake dialects, and is the distinctive name of the Victoria Lake, never being applied to any other of the great bodies of water of Central Africa, though it is also applied by the Waganda to the Nile between the Victoria and Albert Lakes. This confusion, or rather extension of the term, doubtless gave rise to the accounts given by Musa Mzuri to Speke, by which the northern limit of the Victoria Lake was placed about lat 3 N. The names, " Sear of Ukerewe," " Sea of Ukara," etc., found in some maps, are absolutely unknown to the natives of Central Africa, and are only used by the Arabs, whose nomenclature is often far from trustworthy. The physical features of the shores of the Nyanza vary much in the different districts. Commencing with Uganda, to the east of Murchison Bay, we find ranges of flat-topped hills coming close to the margin of the Lake. The shores are rocky and the bottom stony, affording but indifferent anchorage, except in some of the bays or opposite the mouths