The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-05
LIVINGSTONE.

MS eia canAOt eHace the glory Wnic"
attaches to lite's work we'll done to a
career Of real heroism and self sacrifice,
closed asid the scenes Of its greatest tri :
umphs. When we sag that DR.. Living
stone made great and brilliant contribu
lions TO geographical knowledge-that he
hlotted out southern Sahara from the
map OF Africa and substituted in its stead
beautiful and fertile region flied with
noble lakes, rivers, and mou0tains-Ts
have only touched upon one side Of the
work Of The great explorer. For more
than thirty five years, Livingstone has
devoted himself 10 opening up the lnterl'
or Ct Africa to civilized intercourse, .hat
he might secure the abolition of the slave
trade and the elevation Of the negro race.
The recent treaty made for that cad with
the Sultan Of Zanzibar was probably re
garded by Livingstone ASA grc&ter tri-
umph than would have been the discov
| cry OF tile veritable source Of tbes Nile.
| Sir Samuel Bakers recent expedition to
The head of the White Nile has shed a
new light upon the endless qualifications
and the enormous extent Of the African
trade IN human flesh The great lake
basin of equatorial Africa, to whose ex-
| ploratlon Livingstone has contributed by
far the largest share, teens with popula :
tion and presents ii hunting ground for
man stealers with which no other part Of
the continent can compare. If Living
stone las succeeded in showing the Euro
pean trader path and market for com
m dlties throughout this vast region, and
has tbaa sealed the doom of she Arab
man stealers, he has fulfilled What has
undoubtedly been the main object OF his
! life
1t ls too soop to speculate on Livings--
tone success solving the great geograph
zeal problems thav formed the immediate
subject of his labors. Nearly two years of
Livlngstene's wanderings remain unac-
counted fer between his latest recorded
vlsst to Unyanyembe, and the journey
| hither in the course of which he died.
During that period, he may have ex
plored more thoroughly than heretofore
The chain Of lakes lying to the west OF
Tanganyika, and where he hoped to find
the last secret of the Nile. The fact thai
the expedition which found Livingstone
and in whose company he died was on
the way from Lake Bemba to UEyanyem-
rJe--a journey of at least 700 mies-seem>
to bear out this view, and ehis also tai les
with the plan he said to have marked out
for himselfin the beginning CT 1879 lake
Bemba or Bangweole, as 1t is more
commonly called, is the sopthermost and
highest--being 1000 feet above the sea
leyel-of the series of five Lakes cor.
nected byssa river. one of whose sections
LIVINGSTONE called the Luapula and the
other the Lualaba. Bangweolo is twelve
degrees below the equator, and the high
est OF this series Of lakes ig two
degrees balow, so that they are scattered
over region about 1000 miles from
Dorth to south It is said to have been
DIR. LIvINGsToNE's idea that this LAKE
system was commenced through the
| Albert N'yanZa Lake, or 10 some way
with the sources OF the Nile. Bnt the
fact that the lakes all lie westward OF the
Igreat ridge that form the watcr4partinp
dof equatorial Africa and south Of. ar
.|apparently un5rokan traverse ridge that
lie tho intimate termination of the Nne
Valley. MI but compuis the couclus On
thai they are feeders of the Congo, and
have their outlet on the west coast.
It is to be hoped that Dr. LIVING
STONE 5 recent Researches nave SET tIls
problem finally at rest, and that they also
throw some light on the perplexing
question of what is the outlet of the
great Lake Tanganyika. Whatever may
be the completed result of DR.. LIVING
STONES labors, they vii at least bear the
fruit that he was doubles most deeirous
fshould attend them, There will be no
Hack Of tcomnetant !, explorers to foilowaq6
work of the brave old mans and to add
new links to the chain which is gradus4ly
! bringing Central Africa to the worlds
| civilization and progress. "a Gefmah
| expedition is, even now, making It's way
| tom west along the course of the CoDga,s