Central afrika. Falls merchisona
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Bejker has made swimming along east coast of lake, has opened falls of Murchison, ' the greatest on Nile and the largest object on all watercourse ', and after long delays has returned, at last, in Gondokoro. Here supplies and boats should wait for it, but it has not found neither that, nor another. Bejker has got a native vessel and on May, 5th, 1865 after two and a half years of absence has returned to Khartum. Here he has learnt about death Speka and has hastened to give a tribute to the outstanding traveller and a good companion. It was in big to a debt at Speka which has supplied it ' sosluzhivshej to it enormous service ' with a card of Nile. Summing up to own work, it has given due to works Speka as the traveller-pioneer.
' Now, he-when I have finished own expedition-wrote, I wish to underline, as highly I regard merits Speka and the Grant, opened the first and highest source of Nile in enormous lake Victoria-Njantsa. Though I also name the river connecting both lakes ' Somerset ', following how it named in card Spek, I should repeat, that it and is Nile following from lake Victoria, and that I name its word ' Somerset ' to distinguish it from actually Nile originating in lake of Albert-Njantsa. Whether gives this lake to the river of more water, than lake Victoria, or less,-has put does not change. Victoria remains to the highest and the first on time of opening by a source of Nile: Albert-second a source, but at the same time the complete tank of waters of Nile '.
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