Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-28
LIVINGSTONE.
More from the Great TraVeler-ThC
Sources OF the Nile.

New YORK, July 27.-The following
is the continuation of LivingstOne's
second letter 10 James Gordon Bennett
of the Herald. The Doctor details the
peculiarities Of the people called Rua
and tells Of a number Of them who were
captives dying Of broken heart. They
made no complaint except of pain in the
/ heart, and they pointed out its seat cor
rectly, though many believe the heart is
seated underneath the steTnum or breast
bone. This, to me, was the most start
/ ling death I ever saw.
The water-hed is a broad belt of tree
/ covered upland, some seven hundred
miles in length from west to east. The
/ general altitude is between four and five
/ thousand feet above the sea, and mOun-
/ tains stand on it at various points,
/ which are between six and seven thou
sand feet above the ocean level. On
/ this watershed springs arise, which are
well nigh innumerable. The springs
/ join each other and form brooks, which
! again converge, and become rivers, or,
I say, streams OF twenty, forty or eighty
yards, that never go dry. All flow to-
ward the center Of an immense valley,
which I believe TO be the valley of the
Nile. In this trough We have at first
three large rivers, then all unite into
one enormous lOcustrlHe river, the
central line of drainage, which I
name Webbs Lualaba. In this great
valley there are five great lakes, one
near the upper end, and called Lake
Bemba, or, more properly, BangeweolO,
but il is not a source Of the Nile, for no
large river begins in a lake. 1t is sup
piled by a river called Chambezi, and
several Others, which may be cOnsid-
cred sources. Out of il flows a larger
river, Luapula, which enters Lake
MOena, and comes out as the great lake
river Lualuba, to form Lake kamOlOn-
do, west of KamOlOndO; but still in the
great valley lies Lake Lincoln, which 1
name as my tribute of love to the great
and good man America enjoyed for
some time, and lost One of the three
great rivers ! mentioned, Bartle Freeres,
Of Lufira, falls into the kamOlOudO, and
Lake Lincoln becomes a LOcustHhe
river, and it, too, joins the central line
of drainage, but lower down, and all
these united form a fifth lake, which
the slaves sent to me, instead of my
men, forced me, to my great grief,
to leave. As the unknown
lake, by my reckoning - the
chronometers being all dead-it is five
degrees of longitude west of Speke's po-
sitiOn at Ujiji. This makes 1t probable
that this LOcustrine valley is the
western branch Of Petterick's Nile-the
Bahar Ghozal-and not the eastern
branch which Speke, Grant and Baker
believed 10 be the greater river Of Egypt.
If correct, this would make il the Nile
only after the Bahar Ghozal enters the
eastern arm. 1 found that mighty river
left its washing and flowed right away
10 the north, the two great western
drains, the Lufiri and LOmaine. running
northeast before joining the central line
or main webbs. Lualuba told me that
the western side of this great valley was
high like the eastern, and this main is
reported to get into large reedy lakes. 1t
can scarcely be aught else than the west
ern arm of the Nile. But, besides all
this, it is quite possible i may be mis-
taken, we have two fountains on pToba-
bly, the seventh hundred miles of water
shed, and giving rise to two rivers, the
Leambai or Upper Zambesi, and the
kafire, which flow into inner Ethiopia,
and two fountains are reported TO
rise in the same quarter, and forming
Lufira and LOmaine flow, as we have
seen, to the north. The country abOunds
in food Of all kinds, and the rich soil
raises everything planted in great luXu-
rance. A friend Of mine tried rice, and
between three and four months the crop
increased one hundred and twenty fold. !
Three measures Of seed yielded three
hundred and sixty measures. Maize is /
50 abundant that / have seen fOrty-live
loads, each about sixty pounds weight, (
given for a single goal. Maize, dura or
hOlcus, sorghum, herrislum, cassara, /
sweet potatoes and yams furnishes in no |
stinted measure faTlnaceOus ingre- |
dients for diet. Palm-Oil, grOund-nuts I
and forest tree afford the fatty ma
terial for food. Bananas and plantaiBs I
in great prOfusiOn, and the sugar-cane, |
the saccharine, the palm toddy, beer Of 7
bananas, tobacco and Vange, cOnabis 1
salina are luxuries Of life; and the vii |
lages swarm with goats, sheep, hogs,
pigs, fowls, white elephants, buffalo and |
zebras, and gOkas or gorillas, which 4
yield to expert hunters plenty Of nj
tnogeneOus Ingredients Of human food. /
ss~
In the Barnard Impeachment case, at /
New York, yesterday, Charles /
Tracy, counsel on the part Of the Union \
Pacific railroad in the suit brought /
against the company by Fisk, testified /
that Judge Barnard issued an order dl- I
recting William NJ. Tweed, jr., to break |
open the safe of the company and take /
possession of the bonds, though witness
told the Judge the ease was removed to /
the United States Court, out OF his juFis-
diction, but he paid no attention TO the
statement.
Official report is made to the Spanish |
Department Of War announcing the to-
tai defeat of CastelIa's band Of Carlists, |
one thousand men, IN the |
north OF Spain. Thirteen Of the CaTlists /
were killed and fOrty-five captured, ten /
Of whom were wounded. The defeated /
insurgents carried fifty OF their wounded |
with them. The defeat OF another band 1
Of insurgents is reported, with loss ef
three men killed and many wounded.