A PROPHET NOVEL.
"ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S"
HIDDEN RIVER.
LAKE'S M I' STERY SOLVED.
LONDON, December 8.
A discovery of romantic literary interest has been made by Mr A. T. Angell, m British East # Africa. While engaged m the survey of Lake Naivasha and its caves he found the hitherto unknown outlet of this freshwater lake into a large subterranean river. Lake Naivasha lies about one hundred miles east of Lake Victoria Nyanza, and is at an altitude of 6000 feet. Readers of Mr Rider Haggard's story "Allan Quatermain" will at on&e recog- j nise the locality. Naivasha is the lake ■ with the marvellous caves which is ascribed m the chapters T^iich narrate the hero's plunge . into w* unknown m search for tho niys^fcpus white race. The gruesome incidißt by which the caves were'diseoveredJP'i'l be remembered — >how the .native^ Servant Wakwafi dived into the lake and Was "sucked with frightfuT rapidity" through the arch that gave entrance to the mysterious river, and how' his corpse followed the canoe throughout its subterranean passage. "Allan Quatermaiu" was published 16 years ago, and -Mr Haggard then offered m romance fhe solution of the lake outlet, which is .'now substantiated by fact.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10574, 27 January 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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