s, being decidedly a mountain
stream, which floods in the rains, but runs nearly dry in the dry
season.

I had now seen quite enough to satisfy myself that the White river which
issues from the N'yanza at the Ripon Falls, is the true or parent Nile;
for in every instance of its branching, it carried the palm with it in
the distinctest manner, viewed, as all the streams were by me, in
the dry season, which is the best time for estimating their relative
perennial values.

Since returning to England, Dr Murie, who was with me at Gondokoro, has
also come home; and he, judging from my account of the way in which
we got ahead of the flooding of the Nile between the Karuma Falls and
Gondokoro, is of opinion that the Little Luta Nzige must be a great
backwater to the Nile, which the waters of the Nile must have been
occupied in filling during my residence in Madi; and then about the
same time that I set out from Madi, the Little Luta Nzige having been
surcharged with water, the surplus began its march northwards just about
the time when we started in the same direction. For myself, I believe
in this opinion, as he no sooner asked me how I could account for the
phenomenon I have already mentioned of the river appearing to decrease
in bulk as we descended it, than I instinctively advanced his own
theory. Moreover, the same hypothesis will answer for the sluggish
flooding of the Nile down to Egypt.

I hope the reader who has followed my narrative thus far will be
interested in knowing how "my faithful children," for whose services
I had no further occasion, and whom I had taken so far from their own
country, were disposed of. At Cairo, where we put up in Shepherd's
Hotel, I had the whole of them photographed, and indulged them at the
public concerts, tableaux vivants, etc. By invitation, we called on the
Viceroy at his Rhoda Island palace, and were much gratified with the
reception; for, after hearing all our stories with marked intelligence,
he most graciously offered to assist me in any other undertaking which
would assist to open up and develop the interior of Africa.

I next appointed Bombay captain of the "faithfuls," and gave him three
photographs of all the eighteen men and three more of the four women,
to give one of each to our Consuls at Suez, Aden, and Zanzibar, by which
they might be recognised. I also gave them increased wages, equal to
three years' pay each, by orders on Zanzibar, which was one in addition
to th