The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-23 00:00:00

[Stamped, id. Additiemi.),

numerous vegetable' have supplanted it by oultimike• or
in dells where mighty trees, tall and straight as the blue
gums of Australia, usurp the right of vegetative. Bat
though beautiful, travelling is there no sinecure. The bed
of the Nyanza has shrunk from its original dimen-
sion, as we saw in the case of the Urigi lake,
sad the moorlands immediately surrounding are covered
with • network of large rush drams with boggy bottoms, as
much as one to every mile, even counting from the Kitan-
le, which of Wolf was obviously at one period a mash
loner stream than et the present day, when the old bed was
on the level of the present surface of the water, and its
breadth was double that which now exists. The mountains
of the Neon are wearing down, and me is Africa erring
over the equator, although the configuration of the lead
appeared much the memo, but increased in beauty, the drain-
age Eyeless was found, the opposite country showing we woe
on the Dothan slopes of Africa. One stream, the Nwo.
moor, of moderate dimensions, is said to arias in
the lake flowing north, and joining the Nile in
the kingdom of Unger°, where its sane is changed
to Kau. Further a another stream, Luajorri, followed
its example ; and then, still further on from the
centre of the lake's northern coast issued the parent
stream of the Nile, felling over rocks of igneous diameter
12 feet high, wish* all the natives and all the Arabs de-
signate by the simple name " Stones ; " but which I have
done myself the loom to christen " Ripon Falls," after
his lordship, who was the president of the Royal
phial Society when the expedition was set on foot,
amps of the Nyasa' waters, situated 20 miles ninth of
the equator, is thornily one actually ins acted, owing to
the harbarous restriction placed on strangers by
the
.52,2 L vp.d., in the supposed misters°.
P ..y.. net, as
twisire saw the fuse linsi at halt the Yealtakma
the Area riven, and crossed the LEtliimid way be-
tween its serape and junction. Now down the
Nile, from.the Ripoa Fella, the river bisects the and-
stone, continued hills which extend into Ueorga, above
the coast line of the lake, and rushes down with mountain
torrent beauty. Tins, hawing passed these bails of so pest
extent, it trended through long 1/114, MOM like
a lake than a river, where in Ungar* it wee
increased by the cootribetreas of the Rafe sad
Luirjerri, and rationed in its Devisable form to the
Karuma Falls, in Chopi, when again the land dropping
suddenly to the westward, we saw the river rushing on With
boisterous liveliness, but could not follow it owing to • war
which lay ou the track. It was, indeed, • pitr, for hut 60
miles from where we stopped, by common report, the Little
Lots of Nsige, which I had taken so much trouble in tracing
down lest:owes from the Lana Yestes,with Remelt islands in
it,joined the Nile. The old river was oast met with in the Nadi
gauntry, due north of the Kamm Falls, where it still bore
the unmistakeable character of the Nile--long fiats, long
rapids The soothers half in the Nadi was • flat extending,
we believe, to the junction of the Little Lain Norm
northern, a rapid extending down to the navigable Nile—
that is to say the Nibs which is oarigeble ; its entrance
largest during the period of Its flood, and here itis the
Anna River, of which you bar bawd, draining from
the north-neat corner of tho Victoria Lake jam on—ia
the rainy Name an important feeder, but when low ford-
able. The rest of the Nile, considering it is navigated
yearly, ought to be well known ; but it is not so,
as no one bee yet taken the trouble to place nilonseters in
the various brunches, by which we migbt know Use perm-
alai amount of water drained by each in every year, and
for want of which, it appears to me, who have soon them all
In the dry season the best time for judging
their mire degrees and magnitude--gnat misconceptions
have taken place. To these benches, then, more particu-
larly. I would draw attention, noticing only that the Nile—
White River as it is called—in in southern bearings carries
the pelm with it in all instanced of its branching, though
this has been so °flea denied, especially at the junction of
the Blue River. The lint great affluent, which is indeed
the only one worthy of remark, on the left of the
Nile, is the Blur el Gaol. It loins on with
the appearance of • diminutive lake at • sharp
elbow of the Nile, without any visible stream of
its own, whilst the great river winds round with
considerable velocity, carrying, as I have aid, the palm
with it. The second affludat in order of position, which
with all the others is se the right of the Nile, is the
Gents river, swirling with considerable stream and graceful
bend into the permit NI.. Its magnitude and general
are like that of a first-class canal. inferior toile
al&t=erirer, though not much so, and may equal in quan-
tity of flood one third of the Nile at its past of junction.
It is navigable to a great distance south, but where it comes
from so an knows. It cannot be • mountain river, as we
find it full with meets floating on its surface, so in the Nile,
evidently showing that both trunk and branch are
subjected to the same effects of sleggelb Saes
and rapids. Indeed its cbaracter suggests the pos-
sibility of its emanating from the Victoria Nyanza,
and most likely it is fad to • considerable extent by minor
branches from the rest eastern mountain chain. The
third advent is the Southern Sobat river, also full and
navigable. In breadth it is plater than a. Goats, but
lees in rapidity : so that in their pereunial contents
they are much the same. Unfortunately the Northern
Sobat was passed without our knowledge, which being
also navigable would obviously make the Upper Sobat—
that is to may, the Sobs& above the Delta—of far greater
magnitude than the Gera& ; unless. indeed, the three
riven be one river still further south, when in combi-
astir, the commensal would have to be drawn with the
Nile alone, which, doubtless, it would very nearly
equal ; for the Nile, with its additions, has
certainly doubled its importance considered as it
win soon above entering the Bahr-el-Gbazar. The Blue
River, so long assumed to be Me Nile. oily because its pe-
rennial powers were never tested, appears, as it is, a moun-
tain stream emanating in • country between the rainy WOO,
but, subjected to the influence of tropical raise anddrotights,
at one time full and mighty, sad at another so shallow
thin it is fordable. The supposition' therefore, that it was
the Nile roust of itself appear absurd, for its waters, unas-
sisted during the droughty season, would have been ab-
sorbed long before they reached the sea ; but apart from
this, at the mouth of the Blue River the Nile runs a sluice
in its wonted course, whilst the Blue, conforming with
the Gera& and Sobat, blends on with it, describing
a graceful sweep. The Albers, which is the last, is in all re-
spects like the Blue, only smaller. With one more remark
I will conclude. In the heat of the dry season the White
above the Blue is freely navigated, owing to the great as
amino of the Carats and Sobat Rivets ; but below the
Blue and Albers the sea-sand banks obstruct free passage.

(Cheers.) - _
Captaia GRANT then rose amidst considerable cheerios,
and said he bed nothing to add to the very full statement
of his oompanion, but would take that opportunity of
stating that throughout their travels they never bad a
single difference or one unpleasant word. (Loud cheers.)
At the request of the Chairman, Captain Spells related •
number of anecdotes connected with his bevels, tending to
illustrate the character of the native end the difficulties
under which the journey was acoompled.
The CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the King of Ital►, presoak,'
Captain Speke with a gold medal, stating that another was
ow its way for Captain Grant.
The meeting, which did not terminate till about 11 o'clock,
was closed with in enthusiastic vote of thanks to the two
tr•velkers.