Ngami

Ngami, LAKE, a South African lake, situated at the northern extremity of the Kalahari Desert, in 20° 30' S. lat. and 23° E. long., at an altitude of 2810 feet. Its extent and depth vary with the fall of rain in the country to the north of it; its average size is 50 miles long and from 10 to 20 broad. The chief tributary, the Okavango or Cnango, called in its lower course the Tioge, brings down from the north-west vast volumes of water. At another season of the year the Suga or Zouga brings in a supply from the east. It is not yet decisively settled whether in times of flood the lake sends off the surplus water to the Zambezi.