The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-08-09


am successful, though in a small de-
gree. There is a good time coming
yet when slavery, as well as piracy,
will be chased from the world.
Many have but a faint idea of the
evils that trading in slaves inhicts
on the victims and authors of its
atrocities. The slaves generally,
more especially those on the
west coast Of Zanzibar and elsewhere
are extremely ugly. I have no preju
dice against their color, indeed any
one who lives long among them, for
gets they are black, and feels they
are fellow men. But low, retreatlng
forehead, prognathOus jaws, lank
heels and other physical peeuliarities
common among slaves and West
African negroes, always awaken
some feeling Of aversion.
would not utter a syllable cal
culated to press down either class
more deeply in the mire in which it
is already sunk, but l wish TO point
out that these are not typical Afri-
cans any more than typical English
men, and that the natives on nearly
all the highlands Of the interior con
tinent are, as a rule, fair-faTOred
specimens of humanity, I happened
to be present when the head men Of
the great chief Msama, who lives
west of the south end of the Tan
gyreanyka, had come together to
make peace with certain tribes who
had burned their chief town, and I
assert that one could not see more
finely formed intellectual heads in
any assembly in London or Paris,
and the faces correspond finely with
the heads. Msama, himself had
been a sort of a Napoleon for fight
ing and conquering in his younger
days. Many Of the women are very
pretty, and like all ladies, wound have
been much prettier if they had only
let themselves alone. Fortunately
the dears could not change their
charming black eyes, beautiful fore
heads, nicely rounded limbs, well
shaped forms and small hands and
feet, but must adorn themselves,
and this they do, oh! the hussiesl
by filing their splendid teeth to
points like cats teeth. They are not
black, but light warm, brown color.
Cazembes, Queen Of Moara Niom-
ba, by name, would be esteemed a
real beauty in London, Paris, or New
York, and yet she had q small hole
through the cartilege near the tip Of
her fine, slightly aquiline nose.
The Doctor details the peculiari-
ties Of the people called Rua, and
tells of a number of them who were
captives, dying of a broken heart.
They had no complaint, but pain in
the heart, and they pointed out its
seat correctly, though many believe
the heart is situated underneath the
top of the sternum or breast bone.
This to me was the most startling
death / ever saw.
The watershed is q broad belt Of
tree covered upland, seven hundred
miles in length, from west to east.
The general altitude is between four
and five thousand feet above the sea,
and mountains stand on it at various
points, which are between six and
seven thousand feet above the
oceans level. On this watershed
the springs arise, which are well
nigh innumerable. These springs
join each other, and form brooks
which again converge, and become
rivers, or streams of 20, 40 or so
yards, never dry. All flow toward
the center Of an immense valley,
> which believe to be the Valley Of
/ the Nile. In this trough we have at
first three large rivers. Then all
unite into one enormous locustrine
river, the central line Of drainage,
: which 1 name Webb's Lualaba. In
{ this great valley there are i've great
: lakes. One near the upper end is
, called Lake Bemba, more properly
BangWenla, but it is not a source OF
) the Nile, for no large river begins In
5 a lake. 1t is supplied by a river
!, called Chambeze, and several others,
d which may be considered sources,
! and out of it flows q larger river,
1 Lapula, which enters Lake Moers,
} and comes out as the great Seabe
r river LuaIaba, to form the Lake No
: mOlondo, west of KomolondO. But
still in the great valley lies Lake
! Lincoln, which I name as my tribute
} of love to the great and good man
E America enjoyed for some time, and
: the last one of the great rivers
mentioned, BaTtle Free of Sufra, falls
into Komolondo and Lake Lincoln
E becomes a Loeustine river, and it too
: forms the central line Of drainage,
: but lower down, and all these united
! form fifth lake which the slaves,
sent me instead of men, forced me
to leave, to my great grief The un-
known lake, by my reckoning, the
J chronometers being all dead, is five
degrees Of longitude west Of Speke's
} position, at Ujiji. This makes it
} probable that the great Locustrine
River in the Valley is the western
branch of the Petherick's Nile, the
Bahar Ghazal, and not the eastern
branch which Speke, Grant, and Ba-
ker believed it to be the River of
| Egypt. If correct this would make
it the Nile. Only, after all, the
Bahar Ghazal enters the eastern arm.
1 found that the mighty river left its
washing, and flowed right away to
the north; the two great western
drains, the Lufra and Tomsine, run
ming northeast before joining the
central line or main Webbs.
Lualable has told that the western
: side Of the great valley was high like
the eastern, and as this main is re-
ported to go into large reedy lakes,
it can scarcely be aught else than
the western arm of the Nile. But,
besides all this, in which it is quite
possible 1 may be mistaken, we have
two fountains on probably the seven
hundred miles of watershed, and Civ
ing rise to two rivers, the Leamhai
or Upper Tambeji and the Keine,
which flows into the inner Ethiopia,
and the two fountains are reported
to rise in the same quarter, and
forming Iufiria and TOmaine flow