New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-12


tious awe, and seemed 10 CONSIDER that the 6rs
was produced by some Kind Of magic. Their MIA
ton Of what they saw 80 excited the curiosity OF
the Lady SowakIn that she came the following
day. with her women. SSc was no lees aston
ished than her attendants had been, but was most
attracted by the Consuls large mirror. She ana
her women spent half an hocr before II, making
gestures, and unable TO comprehend how they
were mmicked by the reflected Eguros. As mo
was unscquainted with its properties, she threw
back her veil TO see whether the image wouA
show her ace. Tie Consul was sysntiing behind
her, and thus caught sight Of her satures che
was black, NTH strongly marked bvt net ss.
pleasant countessnce, and about forty Ave y-ass
Mage. He hSd a BREAKFAST prepared 80 Ne ~
a,es bat on reaching the room the attsrdanss q
retired, and he was informed that the wvnca y; x
rank in Dsr-rar never cat in the presence q h.
men. After they had finished the repast. h o.
served that they had not only partaksn heartily sf
he various European dishes, but had taken with
them what they could not eat, 50 that the tablB
exhibited nothing but empty dishes. When tAsy
lett, the Lady reiterated her promise, and sdded
that If the Consul would visit Dar-Fur, the Sullaa
would certsinly present him with many ea.nel-
loads Of elephants teeth in consideration Of hjs
courtesy to her. She is expected here shortly. On
her return, and il she performs her promise, Dv.
Rsitz will be the first to enter the kingdom.
Hut the Nile is to me a source Of greater in
terest than all the negro kingdoms between here
and Timbuctoo. Here, two thousand miles iroa,
his mouth, find his current as broad as strong, a.
~. Al.
his origin. II ascend the right Ofhis two brrntke
l may follow his windings twelve hundred iailes
further and still find broad and powerful stzesn,
Of whose source even the tribes that dwell in thoss
far regions are ignorant. | am confident THAI when
the hidden fountains shall at last he reached and
the problem of twenty centuries solved, the entire
length of the Nile will be found 10 be not less than
fow &ousond miles, and he will then take his rank
with the Mississippi aud the Amazon--a sublime
trinity of streams There is, in some respects, .
striking resemblance between the Nile and thu
former river. The Missouri is the true Miss,sspps,
rolling the largest food aud giving his color DO
mingled streams. So Of the White Nile, WIZ /,
broad and turbid, and pollutes the clear blue food
that has usurped his name and dignity. In spite
of what geographcrs may say-and they are stili
far from being united ON the SUBJECTIVE Blas
Nile lie not the true Nile. Here, at the point sf
junction, his volume Of water il greater, but b i
fresh from the mountains and constantly fed BY
large, uniaing afiucnts, while the White Nile hAA
rolled for more than a thousand miles On nearly q
dead level through porous, almvial soil, in which
he loses more water than he brings with hnn.
The Blue Nile, whose source tho honest; Iesg~
sIailered Bruce dn! soturlly discover, rlses near
let. 1io N. in the mountains Of Godjam. oeseke
southwestern frontier Of Abyssnia. Thence Il
flows northward into the great lake of Demhsa, or
Tzana, near its southern extremity. The lake u
shallow and muddy, and the river carries his clear
flood through it without mixing. lie then flows
to the south and southeast, under the name Of
Tzana, along the borders of the kingdom ofiShoa,
to between lat. 50 and 80, whence he cnryes-again
to the north and finds his way through the msin-
tains of Tazogl to the plains of SEMINAR. His en-
tire length cannot be less than eight hundred, and
may perhaps reach thousand miles. The stream.
is navgable as far as the mountains, abost three
hundred miles from this place, where il is inter
rupted by rapids. The Arabic name III Bahr et-
A.rek, means rather black" than "blue," tho
term ozrek being used with reference to objects Of
a dark, black color and besides, it is called
black, in contrndstnction to tho Bahr ni-Abiad,
the rhite Nile The boatmen here also frequently
speak of the black river rs he, and the,white a.
she. When | asked the reason of this. they re-
Piled that it was because the former has estrongor
current.
The White Nile has been assembled to!at. 40 ~,
where its tide is still full and strong to leave
no doubt that its source is beyond tho Equator.
How the French traveller D'tbaddc Gun boast Of
planting the tric0lor at the fountains of the White
Nile, in lat. 81 NJ, is beyond my comprehension.
The most satisfactory account Of the river il that
given by DR.. Knoblecher, which was translated
and published in The Tribune about year ago.
Weme's book is taken up with pecvish comments
on D'Amaud and Sabatier, and the report of the
former, as Learn from DIR. knoblecher himself, 10
incorrect in many particulars. The great snow
mountain of Kilimandjaro, discovered in 1850 by
DIR. Knpf the German missionary, on his journey
inland from Mombas, on the coast Of Zanzibar,
has been located by geographers in lat. % 3. Il
is therefore most probable that the source Of
the White Nile will be found in the range of noun
tans, of which Kilimandaro is the crownng apex.
The geographer Berghaus, in long and labored
article which read before leaving AMERICA, suppe-
ses the Bahr ei-Gh~zai (which flows into tue
White Nile from the west, in lat 80 NJ to be tho
true Nile, and makes it rise in the great l~ke
N'Yassa in lat. l30 $. DIR. Knoblecher, however,
who examined the Bahr el-Ghazal ut its mouth,
says it is an unimportnnt stream, With scarcely
perceptible current. In the Bari csssntry, NJ the
limit Of his voyage, the natives gave him to under
stand that as far as any of them had travelled to
the south the White Nile was still broad and nav
gable. They also spoke Of people white like
himself, who lived far in that direction. do not
believe in the fable ola white civilized sace IN the
interior Of Africa and consider this rather ~ refen-
ing to the Portuguese settlement on the coast the
Indian Ocean reports ofwhich would ss.dily be car.