was inferior. The Nile by these additions was greatly-
increased; still it did not assume that noble appearance
which astonished us so much, immediately after the
rainy season, when we were navigating it in canoes in
Unyoro.
I here took my last lunar observations, and made its
mouth N. lat. 9° 20' 48", E. long. 31° 24' 0". The
Sobat has a third mouth farther down the Nile, which
unfortunately was passed without my knowing i t ; but as
it is so well known to be unimportant, the loss was not
great.
Next to be treated of is the famous Blue Nile, which
we found a miserable river, even when compared with the
Geraffe branch of the Sobat. It is very broad at the
mouth, it is true, but so shallow that our vessel with difficulty
was able to come up it. It had all the appearance
of a mountain stream, subject to great periodical fluctuations.
I was never more disappointed than with this river;
if the White river Was cut off from it, its waters would all
be absorbed before they could reach Lower Egypt.
The Atbara river, which is the last affluent, was more
like the Blue river than any of the other affluents, 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 Kariima Falls and
Gondokoro, is of opinion that the Little Ltita Nzigd must