The New York herald., 1872-08-20
LIVINGSTONE TO HIS BROTHER.
A LETTER FROM UJIJ1 TO CANADA
How Mourning Suits Are Kept on
Hand in the Family.
TORONTO, Canada, August 20, 1872.

TORONTO Canada August 20, 1872.
The following is DR.. Livingstone's letter to his
brother, John Livingstone, residing at Listowell,
Ontario, Canada 1t bore on the envelope, "This
leaves Unyanyembe March IA, 1s72":-
UJIJI Nov. 10, 1871.
MY DEAR BROTHER-I received your welcome
letter in February last, written when the cable
news made you put or your suits Of mourning.
been successfully laid in the deep Atlantic.
Very few letters have reached me for years, in
consequence Of my friends speculating where l
should come out-0n the west coast down the Nile,
The watershed is a broad upland between 1000
miles long. The springs OF the Nile that rise
thereon are almost lnnumerabe. 1t would
take the best part ofa mans lifetime to count
them. One part-sixty-fOur miles Of Oflatitude-gave
thirty-twO springs from calf to waist deep, or one
spring for every two miles. brdseye view Of
window panes. To ascertain that all of these foun
tains united with four great rivers in the upper
part OF the Nile valley was work OF time and
Many weary foot trod ere light dawned on the
ancient problem. II had left at the end of two
years, for which my bare expenses was paid,
could have thrown very little more light on the
country than the Portuguese, who, in their three
slavery visits to Cazembe. asked for ivory and slaves
waters questioned and crOss-quesoned till was
really ashamed and almost afraid OF being set down
as afflicted with hydrocephalus.
went forward, backwards and sideways, feeling
my way, and every step OF the way was generally
cropping in the dark for who cared where the rivers
ranp
or these four rivers into which the springs of the
Nile converge the central one, called Lualaba, Is
the largest. 1t begins as the River Chambeze,
which fows into the great Lake Bangweole. on
leaving 1t its name Is changed rom Cham
beze to Luapula, and that enters Lake
Moero. Coming out OF 1t the name Lua.
laba Is assumed, and it flows into a third
lake, Kamolondo, which receives one Of the four
large drains mentioned above. 1t then n0ws on
and makes two enormous bends to the west, which
made me often fear that was following the Congo
instead of the Nile 1t is from one to three miles
broad, and can never be waded at any part or at
any time of the year. Far down the valley 1t re-
ceives another OF the four large rivers above men,
toned, the Locke or Lomani, which flows through
what | have named Lake Lincoln, and then Joins
the central Lualaba
lower part OF the great valey-that is Tanganyika
and Albert Lake, which are but one lake-rlver or
say, If you want to be pedantic, acustrine
river. These two form the eastern line.
The Lualaba which 1 call Webb 8 Lualaba,
picted by Ptolemy in the second century OF our
fourth great lake in the central line OF drainage Is
found but this have not yet seen, nor yet the
link between the eastern and western mains.
AT the top OF Ptolemy's Loop the great
central line goes down into large, rcedy lakes,
possibly those reported to Nero's centurion,
and these form the western or Petherick's
eved to be the river Of Egypt. Neither they be
called the Nile until they unite. The lakes men,
toned In the central line OF drainage are by no
means small. Lake Bangewolo, at the lowest esti.
mate, is $50 miles long and tried to cross IL and
measure its breadth exactly The first stage was
to an inhabited island, twenty-four miles; the
est point, or rather the tops OF the trees upon
1t, evidently lifted up by mirage; the third
stage the main land was said TO he as far beyond
but my canoe men had stolen the canoe, and they
got hint that the real owners were In pursuit and
got into o hurry to return home On, that
they would but had only my coyerlet