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THE Mouvement Geographique publishes a sketch map of Dr. Baumann's exploration to the north-east of Lake Tanganyika, in the country of Urundi. He has traced out the head waters of the Kagera, which take their rise close to Tanganyika and flow down the long slope to the Victoria Nyanza, being thus the ultimate source of the Nile, if it is possible to apply that name to any of the streams which feed Lake Victoria. The mountains between the basin of the Kagera and that of the Rusiji are called by the Warundi Misozi a. Mwedi, or Mountain of the Moon. Some of the summits were apparently abou 10,000 feet above the sea. The Rusiji River, which flows int Lake Tanganyika at its northern end, is represented provisionall as flowing from the reported Lake Oso, which receives the drainage from the southern slopes of the Mfumbiro mountains, the north slope of which drains to Lake Albert Edward, If this topography turns out to be correct, the Mfumbiro range forms the only barrier across the great meridional furrow which runs from the Mediterranean to the Zambesi, and includes Lakes Albert, Albert Edward, the possible Oso, Tanganyika, and Nyasa.
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Geographical Notes. Nature 48, 548–549 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048548b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/048548b0