Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-17

all this vast system OF lakes and rivers,
through Lualaba and the LomamP, are
drained into Cns great, heavy stream,
flowing westward, sud That this stream,
/ as in an unknown desert. is suddenly
/ cur of. This l. the Nile mystery which
/ soil remains unsOived, AID here lies the
/ ultimate and paramount work Of STAN
| ley in his pres ant expedition, for here il
| was that Livingstone was compelled 10
! Telinquish the prize within bis grasp,
sud 10 abandon it from sheer ex-
hGustiOn- This great interior basin, ex-
| [ uding through over ten degrees of
! latitude, and stretching across twelve
| degrees Of longitude, may, in general
terms, be d scfibed Is covering al area
equsl to the section Of the United
States embraced between the
lst,iude OF this city ard the Gull Of
Mexico on the one hand, and be-
tween the Atlantic COST I'd the Missls-
sippi river on the other. and al the
drainage Of this great bs iu, from all its
countless springs, l4E esard vers, drawn
from the enormous rain "a Of equ2tC-
rial Africa, a. Living rl- e bensved
from his Tese arches and from the source
Of the great OVERLOOKING river belongs
II the Nile. In this belief ne died, aud
the Tangapyika and his successor t. his
unfinished work has gone out 20 finish
it II established thai this sy, tenn OF in-
t rior rivers and lakes is tributary to the
Nile, then the grea5 river OF Egypt, flow
ing through fOIty-fOur degrees Of Isti-
tude, or with a distance ia a straight
line If three thousand miles between irs
sources and it, delta on the Mediterra.
mean, becomes TIE longest river in the
world. Stanley has established its drain
age by the Victoria lake as extending to
four degrees south of the equator, or
thnty-six degree from its junction with
the sea. Thus, as our mighty Missis-
sippi flows through only twenty degrees
o. lstiI ude, it must be admitted tina old
Grand ather Nile, leaving out Livir G.
stone extension, in his length and
uufailing strength, eclipses the Father
Of waters" Flowing fifteen hundred
miles through roasting desert without
a tributary, the volume OF water which
the Nile carries to the sea is much less
than that of the Mississippi, while its
supplies from the clouds in the rainy
division of the continent which it crosses
are much greater. Livingstone made
this lake at Ujji his headquarters for
several years. He had been up and
down it and far to the south Of it, but
had not discovered its outlet when he
was found and rescued by Stanley. The
two men IN an expedition, by boat, SIS
We have said, discovered q powerful.
stream flowing into the lake Rtits north
ern extremity, from which they nalur-
ally concluded that its cut ct was st its
southern extremity, and that the stream
in a enthusiastically cOUrj was dis.
charged into the inteTOCesp. But
Lieutenant CamerOn's discovery Of the
GU let OF this lake eau es Us TO regrt that
Livingstone dId nat make it. This
Cameron, 3 young and active Brit sn
eZpl0r- +, in 8 recent cirCumEavjgation
Of this ifui lake, discovered its out
let on It's western side, and from our
latest advices concerning him, we
presume lie is now threading 10y
boat the mSZas Of LiVingstOne's
basin. The fact is established that
the TangaUyiks lake is tributary to
the Lualaba, AID as the Luaaba Joins
the LOmGme we have only to maze "a
connection between this stream aud the
Nile in order to connect the TaDgauyika
with Lake Albert. Cameron set out or
his voyage down tie outlet from Tan !
ggnyika fully satisfied that he was on
the waters Of the Congo and would come
out by this river into The Atlantic ocean.
But The Lualaba, and the L0mame. |
which drain this interior basin, pursue q |
course, not westward to the Congo, but |
nOItbWard IN the Nile Nor can we re- |
sisg the conclusion that if the domaine !
is not discharged into Lake Albert il |
will be found to be the Bahr-Gl-Gh8zal, |
a great river which enters the Nile on |
The vest side come four HUNDRED miles |
north OF the Albert Lake. Petherick's |
exploration of this crest tributary or |
main river does not overflow this the0- |
~, for he did not pursue the Bahr-ei- |
Gh6Zsl to its sources, while EelWeeu |
The asceTtGiGed basin o. the LOmame |
and that Of the Congo there is . chain OF |
mountains OF five thousand feet shove |
the sea, or some two thousand feet above |
basin. On cur map Lake |
Albert is given as over two fest higher |
than TADg4Gyika, but more careful |
measurement will doubtless give SUI
peTiOr elevation t. the latter lake. Ii |
may, however, have lower
surface level than Lake Al |
bert and yet be tributary to the Nile
through the Babr-tl.Ghaz2i. From this
brief review Of the various discoveries
en- bodied in the accompanying map, |
the reader will observe that Stauley's |
present expedition embraces thorough |
exploration of tAe lages Albert and Vic
taria and their respective basins; that
his circumnavig8tiOn OF the Victoria
lake has Oeen fruitful of interesting dis
coveries and resu Is; that his establish
lnent Of the metes ard hounds of the
Albert lake will probably be attended
wi n very interesting discoveries aud
results; aLd, finally, that in the Ul.i-
mate lax before him he has the high
reward for tbis exc lition, in view OF
the complete solution Of the problem Of
the Nile sources. In any event, at the
close of his IabOrs III this great field Of
research, he viii have
achieved enough to link his name end
toe two pubio journals concerned in
this expedition, in the roll OF public
benefact0r3 to whom the world will be
for the opening and the reveal
ton Of the hithsrtO sealed books of Gen.
tlal Africa.