achatina

Updated: January 13, 2026

Yet, whilst none of our countrymen found any evidences of old marine remains, Captain Speke brought from one of the ridges which lay between the coast and the lake Victoria N'yanza a fossil shell, which, though larger in size, is undistinguishable from the Achatina perdix now flourishing in South Africa.

Sir Samuel White Baker - The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile