Mr. Baker has explored the other and Western source of
the White Nile spoken of by Captain Speke—but disbelieved and (so far as a fact can be refuted) refuted by Captain Burton— originating in the lake called by Captain Speke Luta Nrigi. The lake seems to be as big and long as the Victoria Nyanza itself, and has been named by Mr. Baker the Albert Nyanza. He came upon the lake first about a hundred miles west of Kamrasi's capital (M'rooli), which last was visited by Captains Speke and 'Grant, and in N. latitude 1 deg. 14 min. The lake is 1,132 feet lower than the Nile at M'rooli, and surrounded by mountains which rise to a height of 1,470 feet above its level. It was sixty miles wide where Mr. Baker first came upon it, and widens as you go southward. It is about 260 miles long from south to north. Mr. Baker navigated it in a canoe from the point at which he reached it to the place at which the Nile flows through it, in N. lat. 2 deg. 16 min. For twenty miles the White Nile flows through this lake, and at length issues from it where Captain Speke had predicted. Mr. Baker also ascended the Nile for about ten miles from the point at which it entered the lake, the direction being easterly, when he was stopped by a vast waterfall of 120 feet in height—one of the reaches avoided by Captains Speke and Grant through their taking the chord instead of following the bends of the river. The lake itself tends northward right into Uganda, and then westward.
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