Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-08-06
THE NEATEESIIED

of South Central Africa is over seven
hundred miles in length. Fountains
thereon are almost inumcrable, and it
would take a mans life time t. count
them. From the watershed they con-
verge into four large rivers, and these
again into mighty streams in the great
Nile valley, which begins in ten de-
grees to twelve degrees south latitude.
1t was long ere light Gawned on the
ancient problem and gave me q clear
idea OF the drainage. | had tOfeel my
way, and eV5ry- y-Stsp OF the Wav-I was
generally groping in the dark, for who
cared where the rivers ran? We
drank our fill, and let the rest run by.
The Portugcse who visited Caseme
asked for slaves, and / heard nothing
else. / asked about the waters Ques-
toned and cross-questioned until |
was almost afraid OF being set down as
afflicted with hydrocephalus My
last work, in which 1 nave been
greatly hiui.red from want Of su;ta-
bic attendants, was following the
central line Of drainage down the
rough country of the Cannibals, called
Manyumia, or shortly Manyema.
This line OF drainage has four lakes
in it. The fourth | was near when [
was obliged to turn. It is from one
to three miles broad, and never can
be reached at any point or AZ any Time
of the year. fiTo two western drains.
Supra or Bartefriez river, flow into Il
at Lake Kam&lonOo. The great river
LOmaine flows through Late l. II .Oln
into, and seems to form the western
arm OF the Nile ON which Petherick
traded. Now, | know OF about six
hundred miles of watershed, and I'M
fortunately, the seventh hundred is the
most interesting of the whole, for in
it, If / am not mistaken, four f0un-
tains arise from an e1rthen mound,
and the last of the four becomes, at no
great distance off, 4 large river. Two
OF these run north to Egypt, Lupera
and LOUraine, and two run south in
to Ethiopia IS Lilmbai or Upper
Scambasi and Eafneare. These are
not the sources Of the Nile mentioned
by the Secretary of Minerva in the ci-
ty of Gals to Herodotus. / have
heard Of tilem so often and at such
great distances of that l can not
doubt their existence and in spite Of
some longing ior home that scizcs re
every time [ think OF my family !
wish to finish up by their redisCOvery.
Five hundred pounds sterling worth
Of goods have again TnaccOuntahly
been entrusted to slaves, and have
been over year on the way instead
of four months. l must go where they
lie at your expense ere / can put the
natural completion to my work, and
if my disclosures regarding the terri
ble Ujiiian slavery should lead to the
suppression OF the east coast
SLAVE TRADE,
I shall regard that as 4 greater matter
by far than the discovery of all the
Nile sources together. Now that YOU
have done with domestic slavery for
ever, lends us your pow erful aid to-
ward this great object. This fine
country is blighted as with a curse
from above, in order that the slavery
privilege of the petty Sultan Of Zanzi-
bar may not be infringed; and the
rights of the crown of Portugal, which
are mythical, should be kept in abey-
ance till some future time, when AT
rica Will become another India to Por-
tugese slave-traders. / conclude by
again thanking you most cordially for
your great generosity, and am CRATE
fully yours. [Signed.
- DAVID LIVINGSTONE.