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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 869 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEFANIE , Basso NAEBOR, or CHUWAHA, a See also:

lake of See also:East See also:Africa, lying in 370 E., between 4°25' and 5° N., and measuring some 40 M. by 15. It is the southernmost and lowest (188o ft.) of a See also:series of lakes which See also:lie in what appears to be a See also:north-easterly continuation of the See also:great East See also:African rift valley, although this loses its clearly marked See also:character in about 3° N. There is, how-ever, a well defined See also:watershed extending from the hills east of Stefanie to the See also:Harrar range. The character of the lake, which has no outlet, varies greatly according to the amount of See also:water brought down by its See also:principal feeder, the Dulei, which enters at its north end, being there a fairly rapid stream 50 yds. wide and 32 ft. deep. At See also:low water the western See also:part of the lake is dry. The Dulei, which rises north of 6° N., is joined in about 360 55' E., 50 8' N. by the Galana See also:Sagan or Galana Amara. The Sagan in times of See also:flood receives the overflow of the next lake in the series, Chambo or Ganjule, which lies, at a height of 3460 ft., 70 m. north-north-east of Stefanie. Chambo in turn receives the See also:waters of a larger lake—Abai, Abaya, Pagade or See also:Regina Margherita—through the See also:river Walo, across a See also:plain only 2 M. wide. Abai lies 4200 ft. above the See also:sea, is 45 M. See also:long and 18 m. across at its greatest width. It is cut by 38° E. There are a number of islands on the lake. All the lakes of the series are shut in by high mountains, those surrounding Lake Abai, together with the islands with which its See also:surface is broken, being clothed with luxuriant vegetation.

The See also:

chief feeder of Abai, the Bilate, rises in about 8° N. North-east of Abai are several smaller lakes unconnected with the more southerly See also:system. Lake Stefanie was discovered by See also:Count See also:Samuel Teleki in 1881, and has since, with others of the series, been explored by See also:Donaldson See also:Smith, V. Bottego, M. S. Welby, Oscar See also:Neumann and others. J. J. See also:Harrison in 1899 found the lake quite dried up, and two years later Count Wickenburg found water only in the See also:northern part. An agreement of 1907 with Great See also:Britain recognized the lake as within the Abyssinian See also:Empire. See See also:Geographical See also:Journal (See also:Sept. 1896, Sept. and Dec.

1900, Sept. 1901, Oct. 1902). L. von Hohnel, See also:

Discovery of Lakes See also:Rudolf and Stefanie (See also:London, 1894) ; L. Vannutelli and C. Citerni, L'Omo (See also:Milan, 1899); See also:British See also:War See also:Office See also:map, Africa, See also:sheet 79.

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