. After a course of over 400 M. the Kagera enters Victoria Nyanza on its western shore in o 58' S. It is navigable by steamers for 70 M. from its mouth, being obstructed by rapids above that point. The river was first heard of by J. H. Speke in 1858, and was first seen (by
river emptying into the Victoria Nyanza and in that sense the headstream of the Nile. By him the stream was called " Kitangule," kagera being given as equivalent to " river." The exploration of the Kagera has been largely the
travellers. See NILE; also Speke's Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Edinburgh, 1863) ; R. Kandt's Caput Nili (Berlin, 1904) ; and map by P. Sprigade and M. Moisel in Grosser deutscher Kolonialallas, No. i6 (Berlin, 1906).
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