"Lake Victoria" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... crest of the Nile-Congo watershed; the Kagera, which drains into Lake Victoria, is the most remote headstream ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... journey through it. [The district of Wakhan "comprises the valleys containing the two heads of the Panjah branch of the Oxus, and the valley of the Panjah itself, from the junction at Zung down to Ishkashim. The northern branch of the Panjah has its principal source in the Lake Victoria in the Great Pamir, which as well as the Little Pamir, belongs to Wakhan, the Aktash River forming the well recognized boundary between Kashgaria and Wakhan." (Captain Trotter, Forsyth's Mission, p. 275.) The southern branch is the Sarhadd Valley.—H. C.] The lowest part ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... received the telegram in New York, read it, pondered a moment, snatched a blank and wrote: "Yes. Bennett." That was my commission, and I set out to Africa intending to complete Livingstone's explorations, also to settle the Nile problem, as to where the head-waters of the Nile were, as to whether Lake Victoria consisted of one lake, one body of water, or a number of shallow lakes; to throw some light on Sir Samuel Baker's Albert Nyanza, and also to discover the outlet of Lake Tanganyika, and then to find out what strange, mysterious river this was which had lured ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various |
