Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-06-11
The Nile--A RivaI of the Mississippi.

BAYAkD Taylor, one of the most enthusi-
as'lc OF travellers, and capital narrator writes
admirably descriptive letters to the n Y. Trib-
une OF his voyage up the Nile and his ramblings
about the countries which line its banks. We
copy from his letter, dated at KHARToUM, JAN,
81, 1892, the following description of the Nile
at the distance of two thousand miles from the
point where It empties into the Mediterranean ::
But the Nile is to me source of greater in
terest than all the negro kingdoms between
here and Timbucto. Here, two thousand miles
from its mouth, | find his current as broad, as
strong, as deep as at Cairo, and am no nearer
the mystery OF his origin. If ascend the right
OF his two branches, | may follow his winnings
twelve hundred miles further and still find broad
and powerful stream, of whose source even the
tribes that dwell in those regions are ignorant.
am confident tina when the problem of twenty
centuries is solved, the entire length of the Nile
will be found to be not less than four thousand
miles. and he will then take his rank with the
Mississippi and the Amazon-a sublime trinity of
streams! There Is, IN some respects, striking
resemblance between the Nile and the former
river. The Missouri is the true Mississippi, roll
ling the largest and giving his color to the min
gled streams. So the White Nile. which is
broad and turbid, and poutes the clear blue flood
that has usurped his name and dignity. In spite
far from being united on the subject-the blue
Nile is not the true Nile. Here, at the point of
junction, his volume is greater, but he is fresh
from the mountains and is Constaatly fed by
large, unialllng atfiuents, while the white Nile
has rolled for more than a thousand miles on
nearly dead levels, through porous, auvia soil,
in which he looses more water than he blings
with him.
The Blue Nile, whose source the honest, long
shouldered Bruceadd actually discover, rises
near lat. IL deg. ~ in the mountains of Godiam
on the southwestern frontier of Abyssinia -
Thence it flows Dorthward into the great lake
OF Dembea, or Tzana, near its southern eXtrem-
lty. The lake is shallow and muddy, and tho rv-
er carries his clear flood through it without mix
ing. He then flows to the south and southeast.
under the name OF TZana, along the borders of
the kingdom of Shoa, TO between lat deg and
9 deg, whence he curves again to the north and
finds his way through the mountains of Tazo-
gol to the plains of SEMINAR. His entire length
cannot be less than eight hundred, and NAV Der.
hapS reach thousand miles. The stream is nav
igable as far as the mountains, about three hun
dred miles from this place, where it is Interrupt
ted by rapids. The Arabic name T.! hqr Ell
Azrek means rather black than blue the term
dzrek being used with reference TO objects of
dark bue-black color; and besides, it is called
black, in contradistinction to the Bhar eI bad,
the white Nile. The toatmen here also fire.
quently speak of the black river as he, and the
white as she. When | asked the reason of this,
they replied that it was because the former has
stronger current.
The White Nile has been assembled to lat 4 deg.
~, where it's tide is still so full and strong as TO
leave no doubt that its source is beyond the f.
quator. How the French traveller D'Abaddie
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aims of the white Nile, in lat deg ~ is be-
yond my comprehension. The most satisfacto.
ny account Of the river is that given by DR.. No
bIecher, which was translated and published in
the Tribune about year ago. Werne's book
is taken up with Jewish comments on D'Arnaud
and Sabatier, ana he report of the tormer as |
learn from DR.. knoblocher himself is incorrect
in many particulars The great snow-moun-
ain of Kilimanjaro, discovered in 1850 by Dr..
Krapf, the German missionary, on his Journey
inland from Mombas, on the coast of Zanzibar,
has been located by geographcrs in lat 3 deg. S
1t is therefore most probable that the source of
w bite Nile will be found III the range OF noun
tains of which Kilimandjaro is the browning a.
pex. The geographer Berghaus, in long and
labored article which read before leaving Amer
lea, supposes the Bhar eI Gha2el (Which flows
into the white Nile, from the west, in lat deg
n J to be the true Nile, and makes it rise in the
great lake N'Yassa, in lat. Is deg. S. Dr. kno-
blecher, however, who examined the Bhar ell
Ghazel at its mouth, says it is an unmportant
stream, with scarcely percephble current; at
The limit of bis voyage, the natives gave him to
understand that as far as any of them had tray
elled to the south the white Nile was still broad
and navgable. They also spoke of people
white like himself who lived far in that direction
do not believe in the fable of white civilized
race in the interior of Africa, and considers this
rather as referring to the Portuguese Settlement
on the coast of the Indian Ocean; reports of
which would be readily carried inland, from one
tribe to another DR.. knoblecher is of the o.
pinion that no expedition from this point would
be successful that the traveller must first stop
in the Bari country long enough to gain
some knowledge of its people, and then with a
company of them as his attendants, make that |
his starting point Be that as it may, if | had |
sufficient means for undertaking, and this were
the proper season for starting, should make the !
attempt | have never yet found any difficulty |
in going where others have gone before mo- and !
have some ambition to be the pioneer in a new |
path.
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