Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-08-21

island a mile off ; to gain it they had TO turn
the left shoulder against current OF between
a mile and a half to two miles an hour'
Had thew gone diagonally with the current
tbongb that would have been three miles,
MANY would have gained the shore. lt was
horrible to see one head after another diSap-
near. some calmly, others throwing their arms
high IN toward the Great Father OF all, anu
going down Some of the men who got can
noes out of the crowd padded quick WIN
hands and arms to help their friends three
took people in till they all sank together;
One man clearly lost his head, Tor ne pauuiGo
a canoe which would have held htty people
straight up stream nowhere. The ARABS
estimated the loss at between four and i've
hundred souls 81,
In eonclu ding a series of letters which fill
twelve columns of solid print, DE-. LIVING
stone thus alludes to his future work;
- Geographers will be interested to know
the plan / propose to follow. | shall at pres
ent avoid Uiiii, and 60 about southwest Iroul
this 20 Fipa, which is east of and near the
south end of Tanganyika ; then round the
same south end only touching 1t AGAIN at
/ Pambette; thence resumlng tue southwest
course to cross the Cbambeze and procee
along the southern shores OF Lake BanSWeo-
/ 10. which being IL latitude y degrees south,
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fountains of Herodotus. From them 1t Is
about ten days north to Katanga, the copper
MINIS of which have been worked for ages.
The malachite ore is described as so abundant
it can only be mentioned by the eoaiheaYers
phrase, practically inexhaustible.
About ten days northeast of KatanGa very
extensive underground rock excavations de-
serve att ,ntion as very ancient, the NATIVES
/ ascribing their formation to the DEITY alone.
| They are remarkable for all having water lalI
on in running streams, and the Inhabitants o.
la-ge dis riots can all take refuge IN them II
ease of invasion Returning from them T.
Katanga, twelve days northwest, take to the
southern end of Lake LincOn. l wish to g
down through it TO the LOmanI and lnt(
Webd's Lualada and home. | was mistaken
in the information that a waterfall existed
between Tanganyika and Albert Nyanzal
Tauyanvika is OF no interest except IN very
remote degree in connection with the sources
of the Nile But what If l am mistaken
too, about the ancient fountain Ihen w
shall see. | know the rivers they are said t
forrr--two north and two south and IN bat
Ting down the central line of drainage th'
+ enormous amount of westing IS caused me a
times to teel as If running my head against q
stone wall Il might, after all, be the Congo
and who would care TO run the risk OF being
pax into a cannibal pot and converted into {
black man for anything less than the granC
old Nile? But when found that LualabS
fOrso0k its westing and received through
KamolondO Bartle Fere's great river, anC
that aiterward, further down, it takes II
Young's great stream through lake Llncon
+ venturhi . 5Ii11 [ vs. u Ie - II trt:S-
Two great rivers arise somewhere on the
western end of the watershed and flow north
to Egypt % Two other large rivers rise
in the same quarter and t)w south, as the
Zambezi or I.Iambai, and the kafue into In
ner Ethiopia, Yet | speak with dlthience
for | have ne affinity with an untraTeled
would-be geographer, who used to swear to
the fancies he collected from slaves till he
became blue in the face
[ know about six hundred miles of the
watershed pretty fairly. turn to the
seventh hundred miles with pleasure and
hone. [ want no companion now, though
discovery means hard work. Some can make
what they call theoretical discoveries by
dreaming. / should like TO offer prize toI
an explanation of the correlation of the
structure ami economy OF the watershed
with the structure and economy OF the great
lacustriue rivers in the production ct the
phenomena of the Nile. The prize cannot
be unGervaiued by competitors even who
NAV only have dreamed Ot what has given
me very great trouble, though they ma Y
have hit on the division of labor m dreaming
and each discovered one OF two hundred
miles