Show OF LAKE CHAD I 1 I 1 I 1 s aaa made a by two venla ven arc ome fr frenchmen two preach OEM capt Tr end and naval E ensign bilund Ll LI luard lund have completed in an exhaustive exploration of lake chad and its rumer rna ihlan js bi hitti ito very known ae ac cording tf t those these two explorers the balto is miles in length by 80 miles in width curious enough it Is on oil the extremely shallow the deepest part of the western side where the water Is 23 25 feet in depth while on the eastern easter it shore it lg Is only 5 feet in depth the lale Is sper serl with eighty islands divided into three groups the first vold void of etti ifor or the second covered only vi ith graas arhl and herbs herba but used hy by the dative a tar lor pasturing cattle and the viard inhabited lalanda islands which are thickly and well forested and contain extensive ten alve millet plantations altogether AH ogeth 5 people dwell on lalands islands lalor laler one of the most notable achievements of this expedition was waa the discovery of a hitherto unknown tree the wood of which la Is lighter than cork 10 |