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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARINGO , a See also:

lake of See also:British See also:East See also:Africa, some 30 M. N. of the See also:equator in the eastern rift-valley. It is one of a See also:chain of lakes which See also:stud the See also:floor of the valley and has an See also:elevation of 3325 ft. above the See also:sea. It is about 16 m. See also:long by 9 broad and has an irregular outline, the See also:northern See also:shore being deeply indented. Its See also:waters are brackish. Fed by several small streams it has no outlet: The largest of the See also:rivers which enter it, the Tigrish and the Nyuki, run See also:north through a See also:flat marshy See also:country which extends See also:south of the lake. This See also:district, inhabited by the See also:negro tribe of Njamusi, was by the first explorers called Njemps. It is a fertile See also:grain-growing region containing two considerable villages; The Njamusi are peaceful agriculturists who show marked friendliness to Europeans. N. of the lake rise the Karosi hills; to the E. the See also:land rises in terraces to the edge of the Laikipia escarpment. A characteristic of the country in the See also:neighbour See also:hood of the lake are the " hills " of the termites (See also:white ants). They are hollow columns ro to 12 ft. high and from r ft. to 18 in. broad. The greater See also:kudu, almost unknown elsewhere in East Africa, inhabits the flanks of the Laikipia escarpment to the east of the lake and comes to the See also:foot-hills around Baringo to feed.

The existence of Lake Baringo was first reported in See also:

Europe by See also:Ludwig Krapf and J. Rebmann, See also:German missionaries stationed at See also:Mombasa, about 185o; in J. H. See also:Speke's See also:map of the See also:Nile See also:sources (1863) Baringo is confused with See also:Kavirondo Gulf of See also:Victoria See also:Nyanza; it figures in See also:Sir H. M. See also:Stanley's map (1877) as a large See also:sheet of See also:water N.E. of Victoria Nyanza. See also:Joseph See also:Thomson, in his See also:journey through the See also:Masai country in 1883, was the first white See also:man to see the lake and to correct the exaggerated notions as to its See also:size. Native tradition, however, asserts that the lake formerly covered a much larger See also:area.

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