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KAGERA , a See also:river of See also:east See also:equatorial See also:Africa, the most remote headstream of the See also:Nile. The See also:sources of its See also:principal upper See also:branch, the Nyavarongo, rise in the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill See also:country immediately east of See also:Lake See also:Kivu. After a course of over 400 M. the Kagera enters See also:Victoria See also:Nyanza on its western See also: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. See also:Speke in 1858, and was first seen (by See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white men) by the same traveller (See also:Jan. 16, 1862) on his See also:journey to discover the Nile source. Speke was well aware that the Kagera was the See also:chief 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 See also:equivalent to " river." The exploration of the Kagera has been largely the See also:work of See also:German travellers.
See NILE; also Speke's See also:Discovery of the Source of the Nile (See also:Edinburgh, 1863) ; R. Kandt's Caput Nili (See also:Berlin, 1904) ; and See also:map by P. Sprigade and M. Moisel in Grosser deutscher Kolonialallas, No. i6 (Berlin, 1906).
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