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  1 I      |            intending to visit the lake. He was placed in one of
  2 I      |        his back turned toward the lake. The vehicle completed its
  3 I      |         London delighted with the Lake of Geneva.~Doctor Ferguson,
  4 IV     |        journey was to reconnoitre Lake Tchad, from which he was
  5 IV     |     Bornou, on the borders of the lake. Finally, at the end of
  6 IV     |     Adamaoua, to the south of the lake, and from there he pushed
  7 IV     |           Arab merchants, reached Lake Nyassa, and was there assassinated
  8 IV     |    hundred miles, going as far as Lake Okeracua, which he came
  9 V      |       longitude to the opening of Lake Oukereoue, at the point
 10 V      |      should have tumbled into the lake.”~“Very good! Now, do you
 11 V      |      least idea.”~“Why, that this lake, the lower extremity of
 12 V      |       rest upon that extremity of Lake Oukereoue.”~“It is done,
 13 V      |           the exploration of this lake of which Speke caught a
 14 V      |          mission is to ascend the lake and return to Gondokoro;
 15 V      |         country that lies between Lake Tchad and Darfur. Nothing
 16 V      |      country between the Nile and Lake Tchad, that is to say, to
 17 VIII   |           fluttered down into the lake of Bracciano. So you see,
 18 XVI    |            the chief tributary of Lake Tanganayika, was seen winding
 19 XVII   |           around the extremity of Lake Tanganayika; their ridges,
 20 XVII   |         Speke set out to discover Lake Ukereoue, he ascended more
 21 XVII   |        Unyamwezi, opposite to the Lake Ukereoue, which could still
 22 XVII   |         anchors plunged into this lake of flowers, and traced a
 23 XVIII  |         EIGHTEENTH.~The Karagwah.—Lake Ukereoue.—A Night on an
 24 XVIII  |        The Equator.— Crossing the Lake.—The Cascades.—A View of
 25 XVIII  |           they really border upon Lake Ukereoue, the conjectured
 26 XVIII  |       length, on the horizon, the lake so much desired and so long
 27 XVIII  |         flat as it approached the lake; barley-fields took the
 28 XVIII  |           her directly toward the lake.~This sheet of water was
 29 XVIII  |      Uyanza Victoria, or Victoria Lake, by Captain Speke. At the
 30 XVIII  | triangulation of this part of the lake, but he could not procure
 31 XVIII  |        The balloon approached the lake more to the northward, to
 32 XVIII  |         the whitish waters of the lake.~The latter, seen from above,
 33 XVIII  |     ascertained the height of the lake above the level of the sea,
 34 XVIII  |        The islands with which the lake is dotted,” replied the
 35 XVIII  |       them, for the shores of the lake are inhabited by ferocious
 36 XVIII  |       quitting the surface of the lake, which was enveloped in
 37 XVIII  |      enabled to conclude that the lake must have great depth of
 38 XVIII  |         this rapid passage.~“This lake is evidently, from its elevated
 39 XVIII  |        and the other shore of the lake could be seen. It bent around
 40 XVIII  |         spoke of a river by which Lake Ukereoue discharged its
 41 XIX    |  Bahr-el-Abiad, are immersed in a lake as large as a sea; it is
 42 XIX    |    depression, an immense central lake. We shall see whether there
 43 XX     |           into those affluents of Lake Nu, or of the River of the
 44 XXIV   |         of Africa. But, if such a lake really existed, the point
 45 XXVI   |           five hundred miles from Lake Tchad, and more than four
 46 XXVIII |          all Abyssinia, as far as Lake Tyana, in search of the
 47 XIX    |      appearance of the country.~A lake of medium extent stretched
 48 XIX    |          of the southern point of Lake Ukereoue, reached by Speke.”~“
 49 XIX    |       discovered, is not far from Lake Tanganayika, seen by Burton.
 50 XIX    |           Niger from the basin of Lake Tchad.~Soon afterward was
 51 XXX    |    February, 1823, at Kouka, near Lake Tchad. Denham made several
 52 XXX    |         the eastern shores of the lake. In the mean time, on the
 53 XXX    |         its impetuous waters into Lake Tchad, was quite distinctly
 54 XXXI   |        Course of the Shari River.—Lake Tchad.—The Water of the
 55 XXXI   |           Tchad.—The Water of the Lake.—The Hippopotamus.—One Bullet
 56 XXXI   |          favor: we shall discover Lake Tchad this very day.”~“Is
 57 XXXI   |     reached the southern shore of Lake Tchad.~There it was at last,
 58 XXXI   |       1847. In fact, the chart of Lake Tchad is very difficult
 59 XXXI   |     fifteen feet high, become the lake itself. Frequently, too,
 60 XXXI   |           descending close to the lake, and the car was soon skimming
 61 XXXI   |         plunged a bottle into the lake and drew it up half filled.
 62 XXXI   |         kind of water there is in Lake Tchad. Is that sort of fish
 63 XXXI   |          along the borders of the lake.”~“Then I’m sorry that Mr.
 64 XXXI   |           the northern end of the lake, where Kennedy will find
 65 XXXII  |         The Northern Coast of the Lake.~Since its arrival at Lake
 66 XXXII  |        Lake.~Since its arrival at Lake Tchad, the balloon had struck
 67 XXXII  |           across this part of the lake, again advanced over the
 68 XXXII  |         miles over the surface of Lake Tchad.~Then then were regaled
 69 XXXII  |        the numerous islets of the lake, inhabited by the Biddiomahs,
 70 XXXII  |          We are pitching into the lake!”~Joe obeyed. The doctor
 71 XXXII  |          over and looked out. The lake seemed to come up toward
 72 XXXII  |          feet from the surface of Lake Tchad.~“The provisions!
 73 XXXII  |       still falling, and into the lake.~“Throw out something—something
 74 XXXII  |          the northern part of the lake.~“Lost!” exclaimed the sportsman,
 75 XXXII  |        shore, on the north of the lake. The anchors caught in a
 76 XXXIII |           Complete Exploration of Lake Tchad.—Tangalia.—The Return.—
 77 XXXIII |           only the borders of the lake. The vast stretch of water
 78 XXXIII |           like all the islands on Lake Tchad, is, no doubt, inhabited
 79 XXXIII |           carrying us back to the lake; and this circumstance,
 80 XXXIII |          the northern part of the lake, keeping ourselves as much
 81 XXXIII |         lay on the north shore of Lake Tchad, between the village
 82 XXXIII |          and it advanced over the lake, and was soon borne away
 83 XXXIII |       pirogues that navigated the lake; and the wild fishermen,
 84 XXXIII |           on the eastern shore of Lake Tchad, where it marks the
 85 XXXIII |           ought to go back to the lake; but, to begin with, let
 86 XXXIII |         one of the islands of the lake; for, in such case he would
 87 XXXIII |          of the northern shore of Lake Tchad.~As for supposing
 88 XXXIII |          of the islands or of the lake, and Joe will have skill
 89 XXXIV  |       have found refuge among the lake tribes, can he not do as
 90 XXXIV  |     should be forced to return to Lake Tchad on foot, and put ourselves
 91 XXXIV  |           bring him back again to Lake Tchad; but this was impracticable
 92 XXXIV  |         again near the borders of Lake Tchad, they saw the desert
 93 XXXV   |           sank.—The Shores of the Lake.—The Tree of the Serpents.—
 94 XXXV   |          dashed headlong into the lake, his first movement on coming
 95 XXXV   |         throw myself out into the lake! Mr. Kennedy would soon
 96 XXXV   |           in the middle of a vast lake, surrounded by tribes unknown
 97 XXXV   |        long as he was in the open lake, he thought only of striking
 98 XXXV   |       knew that the shores of the lake were frequented by huge
 99 XXXV   |          toward the bottom of the lake, as is the habit of the
100 XXXV   |     inhabitants of the islands of Lake Tchad, like many other negro
101 XXXV   |       amphibious denizens of this lake enjoy the well-deserved
102 XXXV   |        skimming the waters of the lake, like a monster of the air.
103 XXXV   |       himself—where? —in the open lake! Island there was none.
104 XXXV   |           the watery immensity of Lake Tchad!~“A poor country for
105 XXXV   |        are by no means unusual on Lake Tchad, had liberated our
106 XXXV   |         the northern shore of the lake, and he allowed himself
107 XXXV   |          feature of the shores of Lake Tchad, where reptiles are
108 XXXV   |        the night on the shores of Lake Tchad.~There he had to endure
109 XXXV   |           under the waters of the lake, filling the night with
110 XXXV   |        speed and plunged into the lake. This sudden bath somewhat
111 XXXV   |     carried back by it toward the lake. No doubt the doctor has
112 XXXV   |         of the large towns on the lake, I’ll find myself no worse
113 XXXV   |         herself—moving toward the lake, at a height of only about
114 XXXV   |         run toward the borders of Lake Tchad!~But by this time
115 XXXVII |      pleasure-trip with a bath in Lake Tchad to start on—eh, doctor?”~“
116 XXXVII |     Victoria was falling into the lake, and, once there, nobody
117 XXXVII |           of this phenomenon upon Lake Tchad.~At length Joe, continuing
118 XXXVII |           the night away from the lake, until I got to the edge
119 XXXVIII|             No, Dick: in quitting Lake Tchad, he passed through
120 XLIX   |           the Niger, not far from Lake Debo.~
121 XL     |          in a few moments crossed Lake Debo.~Dr. Ferguson, forcing
122 XLIV   |        been for the adventures on Lake Tchad and at the Senegal