There Remains To Be Disposed Of The "Salt Lake," Which I Believe Is Not A Salt, But A Fresh-Water Lake; And My Reasons Are, As Before Stated, That The Natives Call All Lakes Salt, If They Find Salt Beds Or Salt Islands In Such Places.

Dr Krapf, when he obtained a sight of the Kenia mountain, heard from the natives there that there was a salt lake to its northward, and he also heard that a river ran from Kenia towards the Nile.

If his information was true on this latter point, then, without doubt, there must exist some connection between his river and the salt lake I have heard of, and this in all probability would also establish a connection between my salt lake and his salt lake which he heard was called Baringo.[FN#22] In no view that can be taken of it, however, does this unsettled matter touch the established fact that the head of the Nile is in 3§ south latitude, where in the year 1858, I discovered the head of the Victoria N'yanza to be.

I now christened the "stones" Ripon Falls, after the nobleman who presided over the Royal Geographical Society when my expedition was got up; and the arm of water from which the Nile issued, Napoleon Channel, in token of respect to the French Geographical Society, for the honour they had done me, just before leaving England, in presenting me with their gold medal for the discovery of the Victoria N'yanza.

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