"Uncle Karl, look, this area here is Lake Chad. Just from the map, you can see how vast its water area is. It's no exaggeration to say it's possibly second only to the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) and Soron Lake (Lake Tanganyika) among African lakes."
At present, Lake Chad hasn't dried up as it did in later generations. The water area might be around thirty to forty thousand square kilometers (during the rainy season, the lake's area expands rapidly), so it's very conspicuous on the African map drafted in East Africa.
Prince Karl indeed is quite tempted. Such a massive lake would captivate anyone. Lakes and rivers represent civilization, especially a lake of this size next to the Sahara Desert.
"Ernst, does this so-called 'Lake Chad' really exist?"
