The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-30

The Sources OF tho Mic.
! Tie sources Of the Nile, which have
So long interested adycnturers, and about
which there has been 50 much fable, have
at last been reached. English travellers
have had the honor and triumph OF the
final discovery. The two great arms of the
Nilc-tlc Blue and the White AAcS-mcct
in The Kingdom of Scnaar. The Blue,
which flows in Il northwcstcrly direction,
, las It's sources in Abyssnia. They were
discovered in lGlS by PAEz. The White
/ Nile, however, is the main tributary and
although several expeditions, at different
! periods, have undertaken to find its source,
| il ha, only been very recently discovered.
MAnEMEr ALI's expedition went as far az
TO the fourth degree Of north latitude
| within six degrees Of lake Victoria y yanZa.
one of the sources u.' the E.aia or White
| Nile. In Isl aal l5l2 the travellers
! DARNAuD and SAgAT.EE Gacchded 10 i
degrees II inmates north latitude, which
was the supposed latitude Of tie Noun
tains Of the Moon, witLo-t reaching those
mountains.
In lS57 and loJs the adventurous travel
! Ter Captain SPEKE, under the patronage OF
! the British Government, set ont to find
! the sources of the Nile. He went by the
/ way Of Zanzibar. He succeeded III dis
covering the great lake of Victoria Ny
ana, which extends from about fifteen
miles north Of the equator 10 2 degrees 30
minutes south Of il, as the source oi the
! Victoria Nile, or Somerset river. This
stream near latitude 2 degrees IL minutes
north, turns suddenly 10 the westward, and
| flows into the north end of another great
| lake, whence it issues again almost innc-
diatcly as the Nile proper. This second
great lake Mr.. SrEKE did not discover.
although the natives informed him of it.
Ii remained for the bold and perscycring
| kER tc discover this second great lake.
| After making his voyage up the Nile to
! khartoum, the point of junction Of the
, two great rivers, White and Blue, he there
remained for several months learning the
Arabic language and preparing his com
pany for the pcriloUs expedition to the
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