Kagera River
In July 1897 he started from Bagamoyo and in July 1898 Richard Kandt discovered one of the Nile-sources in the Nyungwe Forest of Rwanda, the essential Nile-source in his opinion. Kandt tells about this in his book "Caput Nili", a deliberately more fancy than erudite work. In 1898, he discovered the source of the Kagera River. Between 1899 and 1901 he explored the Lake Kivu.