The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-01
DIR. LIVINGSTONE.

Goals by Charles Beke-Ae8aru1n8 the
River Rua-The Waters Of Lake Tam
ganyika-Tho Herald Correspondent's
Meeting with Livingstone at Ujiji-
Stanley In Advance OF the Great Ira.
weller Hurrying on to the Coast.
Beke, the African explorer, in letter to the
London Times OF the 2Oth criticises Sir Henry
Rawlinson's views regarding some Of the African
rivers and lakes visited by DR.. Livingstone, and
also refers the movements of the great traveller
and Mr. Stanley, the HERALD correspondent, as fol-
lows
The intelligence telegraphed from Bombay re-
pSss SO our scan ans so that Il Is
only natural II should be % open to various Y
in no small degree founded on misappre
GUS underground village is said TO be, with the
Ruaha, lying in Q line between unyanyemDe and
ganyika. There ought however, to be no question
as to the tact that Rua lies altogether to the west
S sS II as q Win Ss n s
pek about os ons hundred nS FAMILIES %es
yIka and IN an article Which about to appear
In the same journal on Saturday next, the 18th
seven degrees south latitude and twenty-elght
degrees east longitude, between the two lakes,
Moera and uenge as H. Is LAID down ", IN mr. keith
The announcement that the River Ruslgi nows
into and not out of, the north end OF Tanganylka,
and that consequently that lake Is not connected
| with the Nile, does not surprise me. Such was
Captain Burton's original report (see Journal Royd
and most Biographies subsequently modified their
! views on the subject DR.. Petcrmann mas always
contended for the correctness Of that report: Even
opinion that "Tanganyika and Nyige Chowambe
(Baker'sO are one water" that geographer de-
cared ''he would not allow such evidence las Bur
ton's) to be invalidated by simple remark tof Ltv
ingstone'sl, which perhaps was meant quite hypo-
Lake Ianganyika thus appearing to be shut Off
from the Nile Sir Henry Rawlinson contends that
las the waters OF the lake are perfectly sweet IS
| certain that there must be an outflow nom its
basin, as well as an inflow; and as this outflow
does not exist on its western SIDE 1t must be sought
he considers Tanganyika as being connected, pro,
badly near It's southern extremity WITH sae
| In about eight degrees SOUTH"
But, would ask, is it then certain that Tangan-
yika has such an outflow Captain Burton's de-
scrption OF its water has always struck me mill
tatng, II not absolutely against its connection with
the Nlle at all events against its being the main
channel Of that or any other running stream. His
words are Crhe Lake Regions of Central Africa, H.,
139, 400
Of
w p na TS9 Sn s s S ca
% SPs afy sss1 9s sS dc met %
Surely this cannot be the living water Of large
running stream constantly changing which it
would be were 1t las Sir Henry Rawlnson assumes
it to bel the recipient OF ''the Cazembe waters
which Livingstone had heard OF from twelve de-
grees SOUTH" and Of which the traveller himself
declared "the volume Of water which flows north
from latitude twelve. degrees south, is so large
that suppose have been working at the sources
Of the Congo rs well as of the Nile"
Rather must we be content to accept Tanganyika
as still lake, receiving only the waters OF Living.
stones eastern line OF drainage" namely, that OF
I'm Nan o0t1th 1nkA Nm I'M thnR
hand we must, with Livingstone himself, regard
his central and western lines Of dranage,-that
is to say, not only the rivers ChambeZe and Lufra
but likewise as contend) the great river Kassavi
which rises between 11.SO degrees and IL degrees
south latitude, and IN about IL or 10 degrees east
300 miles OF the Atlantic Ocean, and which believe
to be the true Nile-as "converging into an un-
whether a to Congo or ME- he ' said before leaving
Viii in May. 1860, ~ have to ascertain" this
visited lake being evidently Ulenge, close to Rua,
As this subject is discussed by me at some length
Would be- oa Of place to the Sere
! will therefore, briefly express my notion Of DR..
Livingstones movements after his departure nom
| the distant country OF Manyema where we know
him to have remained for q long period. Having
explored Ulenge, and SO settled the Nile ques
tiOn," he could not leave the neighbOrhoOd without
visiting the marvellous underground village there;
and then he returned from Rua to Uji by the north
river Rusig flows into and not out Of that lake. At
UjUi Livingstone was welcomed by Mr.. Stanley, who
had already heard from him while still in the regions
west OF Tanganyika, and who had apparently for
wardcd to him from that place some OF the supplies
which had long been lying there awaiting his ar
rival and then the two proceeded together to Uny-
| anyembe on their way to Zanzibar.
The statement In the telegram from Sir Philip
WOdehOuse that, "having obtained stores" at Ujil,
Livingstone returned to Unyanyembe," though
literally true, is most misleading From Unyan-
yembe Stanley hurried forward alone with de-
spatches from Livingstone, leaving him to follow
with all convenient speed; and when the former
was heard from he had already reached Ugogi, more
than half way between Kazeh in Unyanyeinbe and
the coast.
AS regards the great traveller himself, we may
now calculate on receiving the joyful intelli-
gence OF his safe arrival at ZanZibar for after all
he has undergone and accomplished, and especially
when he had learnt from Mr.. Stanley the Intense
anxiety felt throughout the civilized world on his
account 1t is hardly probable that he would dvcrge
step from the direct road to his native country
and to his expectant friends and admirers. have
the honor to be, sir your very obedient servant,
REIGATE, June 10. CHARLES BEKE,