Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-14

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 Tneynny exploration was not becoming
 hmk sax Well, considering that 1.6O(
 years have elapsed since Ptolemy wrote,
 and Kings, Emperors, and all the great
 men of antiquity longed to know the
 fountains whence flowed the famous river.
 exploration does not seem to have been
 very becoming the other sex either. do
 not know anything more about her than
 what hns appeared in newspapers. She
 possesses indomitable pluck, and no mis-
 take When Sir ROdorick Murchison
 proposed to me the examination of the
 watershed of South Central Africa I indi-
 cated the true scientific mode of ascer-
 talning the correct position of the foun- ta1ns of the Nile. The problem put thus had charm for my mind. Ihad no the oEy on the subject, and was prepared to Gnd the watershed immediately to the sO1th of Speke's Lake, or anywhere else.
 The dividing line between the drainage south and north was unknown and it object for exploration. I recommended DE. Kirk for the task, and he having de- calned, ultimately accepted 1t myself, in the belief that 4 could, m two years, pass across the head of Nyassa, examine the wmtershed, and in returning begin be. Eexu1ent mission on the slope.t to the sea, Had kmo@n &n the toil, hunger, hard ship. and time involved in getting clear Idea of the drainage, might have prefer red a straight w2istcOat, the head shaved, and blister on if, to undertaking the task The watershed is 800 miles long frOH vest to east Forward, backward, sideways I went, n a route which can nev- CT all be put down. I had to feel my way, and every step of the way was generally gr1pSng Tn the dark, for who cared where the rivers rans Native wars were great hlndraEces unsuitable, cowardly attend ants an infoleTable drag to both mind and body. Tt is more difficult to get reason ahle evidence of the cannibalism of the MznxaelA that might be imagined. I have tired ever since came to see human &ekh elthsr cooked or eaten, but in vain. A finger wrapped up in leaf is all that rew1r3ed my search and offers of pay 4eak This was probably chance taken by party which killed q man in revenge. The occurrence of graves frees a district fr02 this imputation-their absence is s1zpScs0GS, but in the Backwain country a grave IS never seen, and the people are n0k eannib2ls. Had believed one-tenth part of the tales told of the Manvuema by the traders and by the tribes in their vicinity mlght not have ventured among them Ny mother never frightened me with bOgy, so am not subject to bogy- pA0hla. m which disease everything hor- rihle Is believed if imputed to black SkiR. 1t ls epidemic in Jamaica.
 Tt iS no won5er the Portuguese gained so little knowledge of this country and the drainage into the Nile. The three visits to Casembe were simply slaving ex- petitions. They inquired for ivory and slaves and heard of nothing else. Gen. hsDea of good principles at Lisbon will now feel sorry that no higher objects ami mated their countrymen, but as nation they had no higher aim in reference to us oa the Shire than by thwarting our efforts by murder and arson, till the people we Et<ked life and fortune to elevate were swept away.
 | felt certaIn that the watershed held the solution of the problem, not because it was wished that the watershed be ex- z@ineds but because had already dis covered the chief sources of the Zambezi and the southern sources of the Congo. Iae Nile. | felt persuaded, would not be esseatlzlly different The high fanking rSdges cf the valleys of tEese rivers are re- pe&ted ia those that begin at Katanga and the country of Basango. The theory as so the form of the continent has a more limited application than thought it had fCs2 the observation made in my great FoGr1ey from Loando to Quillimane. The L12lAhA IS the central lIne of drainage of the great Nile Valley; it begins in 100 12' Sozth. flows through Lake Bangweola. then through Lake Moreo, to become it. self great lake river, one of the head waters of the rlver of Egypt. West of tASs are two large rivers of the same name. TAese two Lnalaba united form a large RRke. Lake Lincoln use the names of the t~o great and good men, Palmerston and LamenAm. 1m loving admiration. as if to place my poor garland of love on their sS%8S. These tW0 rivers rise by two soGzkszns. wAlcA by anticipation named B@x<@ FuHre&. Ihe abolished slavery in Scz@ae. India and Young's fountains. Ahs1x ten DlRes south of these rise other sUzzH&znss the other gives rise to the AGtGL These named Palmerston and OsweA wAlcA Gow into zambesi. These sOzr SOznsAlns are probably the Nile SSUzE&SzS. wA6cA were described to Hero &Sezs as 2aka<A0nable, and sending one aIHlE O< the water to Egypt. the other half so EEne< kEesOpsA- ' have only to do this PEz% sO E1ssA zp the whole discovery, and have a sOEe longing to return homeward. Hn 6rSagAs sO a stand by my worthless sI<sez1zztS wAa. besides deserting, be- cgme euwer wAMR@humters of their own csEzsSxDeA- They had all been slaves, xa6 SE Ehe Sxznz11n class in Africa. and u.sz& wssA me S21v sO avoid being enslav- cd szc2lA- and made so vOrk. Their eager skye -kuxsSzsg where no danger was incnr- RS8 wxs sS aRgrzzzsse themselves with the Ewsr4sN Enzr~mzzxns~4~- M@ kAAn E. AznzEsz Emzm wm& well it will be from hay. @c Se1n smnrA4 to work. and liking it as wR 3A- My wVugxAaes have been EDefted. SahEAA1 and AEAgwed to live m idleness 91zm zzsEa&kHm kindness. and on leaving @he sSAn& ssm& me an synonymous letter. Easuzszz1C the EzHsaeT who had fed. clothed, and sxEEsgAs them 6or years Had we been srgHae& ax tnEr wsEe we sAcaid have been Es zasaHsS \ Ezre sz@xesed with all sorts & AExrwms-AwssemkoHs. Rechuanas. MHAAzsAsAss EanEkwSmx. and ZaMtesians of @AE@trwns EEI@eSs and we soon became at s1G-AAAsA ss szAcA CeA<E- Ny present lot are eEEwrEazclk. md E2zr specimens of Africans.
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