N'yanza

In the same year he published _The Albert N'yanza, Great

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"The Albert N'yanza" may be regarded as the most important of his works of travel by reason of the exploration which it records rather than on account of any exceptional literary merit.

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But N'yanza merely means a piece of water, and no one knew where he meant or what project was on foot.

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I mourned, however, when I thought how much I had lost by the delays in the journey having deprived me of the pleasure of going to look at the north-east corner of the N'yanza to see what connection there was with it and the other lake where the Waganda went to get their salt, and from which another river flowed to the north making "Usoga an island."

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Nile, without any doubt, rises in the Victoria N'yanza!

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His discovery of the Albert N'yanza completed the labours of

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Victoria N'yanza, which they had crossed at Karuma, flowed westward for several days 'journey, and at length fell into a large lake called the

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N'yanza was the source of the Nile, on May 9, 1859, under the direction of the Royal Geographical Society, and Captain Grant, an old friend and brother sportsman in India, asked to accompany me.

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River, from the Victoria N'yanza, the same river we had crossed at

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Deep down its well-wooded side was a stream of most inviting aspect for a trout-fisher, flowing towards the N'yanza.

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