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  • Chibero, on the so-called Albert Nyanza, past Uvira, where the stream narrows and where a pilot is required, to the Arab dépôt,

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • And this magnificent, picturesque, and in many places highly romantic lake is the basin source of the sacred Nile, which, leaving it at the extreme northern end by the Ripon falls, flows thence to the Albert Nyanza, which is 1,500 feet lower, and thence continues its course as the White Nile.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • Chibero, on the so-called Albert Nyanza, past Uvira, where the stream narrows and where a pilot is required, to the Arab dépôt,

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • “If we settle at the headwaters of the Nile, we command Egypt,” Sir Samuel Baker commented, “and a barrage at a low pass, where the Nile cuts through a rocky defile only eighty yards in width below the exit from the Albert Nyanza, would raise the level of the great reservoir of the Nile by fifty feet, and entirely control the water supply of Egypt.”

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • “If we settle at the headwaters of the Nile, we command Egypt,” Sir Samuel Baker commented, “and a barrage at a low pass, where the Nile cuts through a rocky defile only eighty yards in width below the exit from the Albert Nyanza, would raise the level of the great reservoir of the Nile by fifty feet, and entirely control the water supply of Egypt.”

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • “If we settle at the headwaters of the Nile, we command Egypt,” Sir Samuel Baker commented, “and a barrage at a low pass, where the Nile cuts through a rocky defile only eighty yards in width below the exit from the Albert Nyanza, would raise the level of the great reservoir of the Nile by fifty feet, and entirely control the water supply of Egypt.”

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Luta Nzige (Albert Nyanza) Lake, and Dr. Peney “brought back the hand of the first gorilla which had been heard of”

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Baker, continuing up the Nile, discovered Albert Nyanza and visited the kingdom of Bunyoro, whence he returned to Gondokoro.

    1837-48 2001

  • Damaraland and the Angola-Congo coast; and (d) the Western group, including all the Central and Northern Congo and Cameroon languages, and probably also group No. 2 of the Albert Nyanza and Semliki river.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • Their success made him fear that there was nothing left for his own expedition to accomplish; but the two explorers generously gave him information which enabled him, after separating from them, to achieve the discovery of Albert Nyanza, of whose existence credible assurance had already been given to Speke and

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

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