The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-24
TIE UNKye,.,N REGIONS.

Dr. I.irinEstonc g.crfnin1y Safe His
Report an his AZ lean Explorations
and thr sourscf OF the Smc-Thc
frohiem "Tow }JIvcd.''
\ cable dispatch ri.:iv.d la,. evening an
n"unccs that Il communications haI been received
from DIR. Livingstone, lated Till, May -, 1859,
in which lie says tina, hSswas in goo,i health and
had hccn treated wei everywhere This news
gives additional ntcrcg! TO the following lispatcl,
from The eminent cX!icser, which was read at
meeting o! the Royal Geographical Society OF
London, held On November S, Sir RodcrcS
Murchson presiding
NEAR: BASGwEoLo.
Soi-TH CE:;T;: n. AFRICA. July lSdS.
NJ LDid-whcn mad the honor OF writing iu
you In February, 1867. haI the Impression that
was then on the watcislcs, between tlic Iambczi
ami either rhc Congo or thc Nile. More extended
observation has Since convinced me OF the essen
tiai correctness OF thatsiinprcssion; and from
learned from intelligent natives, think that %tt'
may safely assert that i.rNrhef sources Of the Nile
ari1c hc,wecn 10 deg. -. sindeg. sonth latitude,
i';olcuy, whose River RlaPal Is probably the T,,j-
vnma Aware that others have been mistaken,
AMI laying 10 claim tO'Sifallirility, lo noI yet
speak very positively. pr:i tu;arly of the parts
wes; and nOrhwcs. of T1EgaNyit;i,. hccai,sc these
your ior'iship will read the following short sketch
oi my discoveries you will perceive that the
springs Of the Nile have hitherto bccn searched
Tor very niuc'i ton far u the uOrtlt They rise
some 200 miles south oc tho most souiherly pur.
tiolt Of the Victoria Nyan&a. and indeed soutl D!
all the lakes except BangTeolo.
Leaving Tie valley of the l.OanGwa. which en-
tcr.' tile IarnhrZi at Iumha, we climbed up what
seemed TO he 4 great mountain ninss hut Il turn.
cd out to he only the Sout ntrn cge or M elevated
region, which IL from 3Dc0 TO G00U feet above the
level of tile sea-. Tits upland may roughly Inc
said 10 cover space south of Lake Tanganyika
ar some $40 miles Square. IL IS ,Icncr,lily cover
eG with dense on open C:cst. las an uii,iulatIng,
tered by numerous rvulets and, for Africa, is
sold. II slopes towards the north aud west, hut
nave founu no part OF IL under 3u01 feet OF altl-
space indicated, Is also an upland, and affords
pasturage TO the immense herds or cattle of the
lsassango, n Remarkably iIght-coorcd race, very
side OF u great but still elevated valley. Tic othcr
or western si,lc IS formed by what are called the
Kone Mountains, bey0ndE the copper mines Of Ka-
tanga. Still further west and beyond the Konc
range or plateau, our Oil acquaintance the Zambe.
southern end OF thegreat valley enclosed between
Usango and the konc range Is between II deg.
ani m s !. deg s9m, put, WAS rarely possible there
ing between two and three O'Clock, found one
which showed latitude IL deg. SO min. south, and
we were then fairly OH the dpland. Next day We
passed two rvnlcts running north. AS we ad-
vanccd, brooks evidently perennial becamc
l.oangwn; others went northwest 10 Join the river
Chatnbczc. Misic' Dy nlhp calling this river In
nm oii:iiand manner "Laintez, eastern hrancl,'
l took II TO bc the southern river OF that name:
hut the Chambezc, with ail It's branches, nows
from The eastern side into thc centre OF the great
upland valley mentioned, which Is probably the
valley oi the Nile. 1t is an interesting river Ns
helping TO form three lakes and changing lis
conr&c. II was first crossetiSLy the ror;urJcss
who always inquired for Ivory and slaves. anti
heard of nothing else. A person who collected
gucsc knew little actually OF the country that
lie ,l = large river here running 5000 feet uphill,
and called IL the New Xambazi.
| crossed the ClamDcZc ia 10 fru ~ spu,lI
and several oi Its conucI.,. and north quite
as large rs the Isis ut 0S'i' bnt running flister
these aa S'n is secSss The Hsmssa get,sa
could always steer the steamer bndy tn where
they lay. sure OF indnG hot less than eight feet OF
water. The Chanhbe2c runs into Like lilngwcol0,
and on coming out OF It assumes the name Of T,,.
town OF Ca2einbc, and twelve miles below il enters
Lake Mocro. On leaving Mocro NJ its northern
end by II rent In tue mountaI;:a OF ltua it takes
the name lLilaba, and passing On N.N.W., forms
Glcnge i'll the country west Of Tanganyika. have
seen 1t only where it leaves MOero and where t
comes out OF the crack in the mountains OF Rua,
hut am quite satisfied TINT even beroie il receives
TIC river Soiunso from Marungu, and the Soburi
iron, from inc aioba country IL Is quite sufficient Ia
islands ns some assert or Il sort Of I'unjaub u
division into several branches as Ii maintain.
ed up by The Lullra, large river which by
many continents drains the western side of the
pointed out west OF eleven degrees south, it is
there asserted always to require canoes. This il
purely native information. Some intelligent men
assert that when I.uira takes UP tho water OF
ulenge, u nows north northwest into Lake Cho-
wampc, which conjecture to be that discovered
by Mr.. Baker. Others think that It goes into
Lake TanganyIIa ut Uyira, and still passes north
ward Into ChOwnnbe by q river named I.Uanta.
These arc the parts regarding which suspend
my Judgment. II am in error there and live
through II, shall correct myself. My opinion at
present is, II the large amount OF water have
on the west 1t must have all exit from the lake
anu III all likelihood by the Loanda. Looking
6iS 6asS again to the upland IL Is we'll divided into
perc, kabnirc Maringu, Lunda, or Londa, and
Rua; the people are known by tile initial "li" In
stead OF the initial Lo or U for country. Tic Arabs
soften 3n into Wa, in accordance with their Sua.
hell dialect; the natives never do. On the north
ern slope OF the upland, on the I'd OF April 1867,
discovered Lake Lienba; 1t lies In IL hollow with
nrccipItOus sides two thousand feet down: IL is
extremely beautiful, sides, top and bottom being
phants, buiIaoes and antelopcs feed Oh the stecp
slopes, while hippopotami, crocodiles anu fish
elephants, unless sometimes deceived into a nit.
fall, have IL oil their own way It IL rs perfect
natural paradise as Xcnoplton could have desired.
On two rocky Islands men till the lund, rear goats
and catch fish; the villages ashore are cmbowcr.
cd IN the palm oil palms or the West Coast OF Az
rlca. Four considerable streams now into LIEN.
ba, and number or brooks tScottce. trent
burns VI from twelve to fifteen feet broad lean
lown the steep, bright red clay schlst rocks and
my attendants pause aud remark with wonder
l measured one OF the streams, tho Lofu, fifty
2e4 feet say leo yards broad, thigh and waste Deep
and flowing fast over hardened sandstone flag
In Scptcm6er-hc last rain had fallen on tile 18th
OF hey. Elsewhere the L0fu requires canoes. The
LonZua drives large body OF smooth water Into
Lcmba, hearing on It's surface duck weed and
grassy islands; this body OF water was ten faith.
oins deep. Another or the four streams In said to
be larger than the Iaofu, hut an ver.ofilcious |
headman prevented my seeing more OF IL and !
another than their mouths. The lake is not |
large, from eighteen to twenty miles broad, ana |
from thirty.iiye TO forty long. goes or north,
northwest In q arlvcr-liEe proOn8atiOn two miles |
wide, 1t IL said, to Tanganyika. would lave net |
IL down AZ an arm Of that lake but that lis sur
face is $500 feet above the level OF the sen, Willie
SpeSe makes IL 1914 feet only. l tried to follow |
the rlvcr-liEc portion, but was prevented by a |
war which hah broken out between the chief OF |