The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-24
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Ata meeting 81 Ihe Royal Typographical So
ciety On London, on N0ysmbe &, some letters
were read from DR. David Livingstone. the
explorer o. Africa. The latest date OF the new.
nom him was July 8, lses, sixteen months
PREVIOUS; aud be then wrote, Il have had no
aews IRON anywhere for two years and up
wares The most curious discovery made By
DF. Livingstone in this, bis boldest expedition
'nto The solitudes Of Africa. Is summed mp BY
Mr.. John Kirk. the British Consul al Zsnzi-
BAR, In the following report 20 the secretary OF
the government az Bombay:
"sir; The chief point OF geographical inter.
est IN ths present letter Of DR.. Livinastope- /.
The sf4tement that the sources OF The Nile are
% BE- inund IN The lakes and rivers that drain
the grrat Naiiry Ia which Caxembe il situated
ana Sins 70 TIE south Of Ianganyika, between
zee aud twelve degrees Of south latitude
Toe town u Cazembe, from which DIR.
..s'N5 s.vne previous letiers (Deeember, 1861
SER aaied, has been already visited ana de.
-eriDsd by the Portuguese missions. Ia Is sit
satra 90 The shores OF one OF a cham OF lakes
that How nOrihw4rds. The Chambeze having
e"ieetcd BY many streams the waters OF the
nofihern siope Of the damp, elevated plains,
hows 10 Join Lake Bengweolo. This again is
CONNECTED with Lake Moero by the Loapata,
on whose banks the town OF Cazembe is built
Moero is In its turn drained by tue Luabala ia =
10 another lake, named Ulenge, and here ex-
vlorat'on ends.
Natives have told DIR. Livingstone that
UleBge is an island-studded lake whose waters
join the Lutira, large river coming from the
Ne stern side OF the same great plaiu whose
astern slope is drained by the Chambeze
rms uuited stream, some say, enters the Tan
sanyika, and thence by the LeoDda into Lake
Chowambe; but DIR. Lvings ones iniormauLs
hiatt 1,a
Luhra passes TO the west of Tangapyika and
20 TO the Lake Chowambe, which DR.. Living
stone thinks is the same as the Albert Nyanza
If Sir S. Baker.
In fact, the interest of the journey centres
10 the southern come ctiOns OF the Albert
Nvanza; and Arab traders generally agree in
linking that water communication does ex
lst between that and the Tanganyika; but
nave not met with any one who processes to
uave traced out this communication.
From Arabs who visit Cazembe, learn
that the lakes now described by Dr. Living.
tone are of considerable size-probably from
i've to ten days march in length, and, like
Nyassa, Tanganyika and the Albert Nyanza,
',verhung by high mountain slopes, which
during the rainy season become flooded, so
that caravans march for days through water
knee deep, seeking for higher ground on which
10 pass the night. The country abounds with
large game and domestic cattle, while the eli
mate is spoken Of as not unhealthy, and is GER
ainIy contrast to the Zanzibar coast, if we
70 '"dq" from the tanned, healthy traders
who return"
-. ,,.ucnce on which DR.. Livingstone con-
Guides that the valley OF Cazembe is the source
Of the Nile is not given in his letters; and he
question has perhaps ere this been decided by
ais personal investigations. Should the opin-
ION here expressed be confirmed, it will prove
hat the Greek eeographer Ptole my, had
soived, more than seventeen centuries ago, tn.
question which has most of all perplexed
he geocraphers of the nineteenth CENTURY
La this it will add one more to the well-earned
ionors OF perhaps the greatest name 10 ancient
'cience, the discOver-r OF the form of the earth,
The inventor of The parallels of latitude auo
ongitude, the first astronomer who caught
,lim 2se of the true theory OF the solar system,
and the fist physical philosopher who under
TODD the cause of refiacIion.
Ii the Nile rises where l'r. Livingstone sup
,oses. it is by far the loAg+st river IN the world
Ii extends from latitude 100 or 12o south to
altitude 81 north, distance in straight lint
OF nearly or quite three thousand miles, or
much more THAI the whole breadth of the tenn
,erate zone between the tropic of Cancer and
he polar circle, within which lies nineteen
N. Y Post.