The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-15
THE NILE MYSTERY.
Judge DAILY on African Ex-
ploration.
He Regards Stanley as the Discoverer
of the Source of the Nile.
PTOLEMYS GEOGRAPHY INDICATED
Making Known the Resources of a
Great Continent.


Last Thursday night at the meeting OF the Geo
graphical Society Chief Justice DAILY in sSeaking Of
the efforts made to solve the great mystery Of the
Niles source occasion to repeat an assertion he
made years since, when the discoveries OF Spoke and
Baker published and also 10 express an opinion
regarding the plucky young journalist now investi-
eating the watersheds Of Equatorial Africa
CHIEF JUSTICE DALY's REMARKS.
He said The evening being devoted to Africa, l
cannot TO pass without noticing the important
result thus far Of the expedition ofMr H. NJ. Stanley,
sent out by the NEW YORK HERALD and the London
Telegraph After a journey OF great peril, attended
by the ioss of about half his command and which was
carried through by indomitable perseverance and
courage BY which Mr. Stanley has hitherto
been distinguished, he succeeded in reaching
the southern shore of the Victoria Niyanzs, where
Speke's great discovery made and has been able
with small vessel TO explore the side OF the
lake, hitherto unknown and, Spoke and Grant had
in 1861 explored the western side the result Of Mr.
SANKEY'S successful efforts that the whole Of the
is known and the streams that flow into it. It is
Impossible oyerestimate the value Of this cxpora
ton brings the long vexed question Of tho
of the Nile to solution than anything that has
yet been done.
MAGNIFICENT POSSIBILITIES sTANLEY's MISSION.
Mr. Stanley, when last heard from, was on the
northern shore Of the lake, and has announced
his intention to proceed from thence with
his little vessel to explore the Albert Niyanza.
II his life shall be preserved and succeeding in
this further explanation, he should find that the Albert
Niyanza is in communication with the Luaaba Of
Livingstone and thereby connected with the great
work Of rivers and lakes traced by Livingstone OF which
the Lualaba is part then the Nile will only prove
TO be the longest river in the world but the outlet Of
the extensive and the most extraordinary water
system upon the globe IT. the other hand as is
highly probably, ne should find that the Albert Nyanza
not connected with any great water system south Of
IT, but is independent lake, flowing into the Nile, the
southern part of which is simply supplied by streams
rising in the land Immediately about 1t, then the
source Of the Nile will have been ascertaned and
question settled that has agitated the world for
than 1000 years.
Aristotle declared 2 900 years ago upon information
the source OF which do not know that the Nile took
It's in mountain called the Silver Mountain which
the island of Menuthias, the modern Zanzibar
REMAIN KNAPP DISCOVERIES
This mountain appears to be the same mentioned by
the Arabian geographers in the Middle Ages the
White Mountain, and both undoubtedly refer Kill
manjaro, discovered by the missionaries Rebmann
and Krapf in ls+S which is mountain % 600 feet high
lying to the south and east Of the Victoria Nyanza about
three degrees below the Equator with a dome-like
summit, capped with snow, which, when free Of clouds
At.t A."
silver These missionaries also discovered another great
w-capped mountain, Kenia, east of the Victoria
Nyanza and degree south of the Equator OF larger
size, If not of greater elevation, than Klmanjaro
which Dr. Krapf describes rising into huge wall
with gigantic roof, above which rise close 70 each
other two immense horns, he calls them, or mighty
towers giving to the whole such grand and majestic
look that he overwhelmed at the sight OF IT,
They also found other mountains, denoting
extensive range OF which Kcna and
Klllmanjaro the most elevated peaks, and
DR.. Krapf was Of the opinion that the snow melting
from these huge mountains with the tropical OF
that region, supplied the waters which formed the
Victoria Niyanza, and were the remote OF the
Nile They found multitude OF rivers rising amidst
their snow-capped mountains Rcbmann counted
twenty flowing from the heights Of Killmanjaro,
Of which, however, flowed westward; but they found
that rivers flow north and west from Mount Kenia;
and Dr. Knapp thought that it was these rivers that
formed the Victoria Niyanza, and that the immediate
Of these rivers the maishy and wooded
country Of the Waman people, east Of the lake.
This suggestion that Mount Kcna, with two great
horns immense towers is the elevated land
from which the streams that flow into the Victoria
Nlyanza recalls the Of Herodotus that he
told by the scribe in Egypt who kept the sacred
OF Minerva that the fountains OF the Nile
were midway between two hills with sharp, conica
tops one Of which was named Alphi and the other
Maphi TO discover which fountains was the constant
object of Livingstone. mention these circumstances
for their bearing, shall presently show upon Mr.
Stanleys discoveries but before doing shall to
a few other facts.
PToLEAYs GEOGRAPHY
Ptolemy, whose geography written in the middle
OF the second century Of our era, says:-"On the
western boundary Of the Anthropag the Mountains
Of the Moon, whose BY the marshes
OF the Nile"
In the maps Of Agathodaemon, OF Alexandria pre-
fixed to the edition OF Ptolemy l47s and which are
supposed to be contemporaneous with Ptolemy, the
Nile is represented flowing from two lakes lying par
allc with each other about eight degrees south OF the
Equator which supplied by streams represented
rising from a chain of mountains that called upon
the map the Mountains Of the Moon.
REDIscoyERIEs BAKER.
In my anniversary address after the discovery OF the
Victoria Niyanza BY Spoke and Of the Albert Nyanza by
Baker you may remember that expressed
the belief that these lakes merely
discoveries; that Spoke aud Baker had sim
ply found the two lakes laid down in the
old map Of Africa prexed the geography Of Ptoemy,
aud that, although placed in the early map
degrees further 10 the south than where they
found, they evidently the same lakes, Ptoemy
had made many in respect TO the position OF
places both north and south Of the Equator for in
stance in the Of Cape Guardafui which he placed
six degrees further south than il is The view then
expressed was at FIRST very favoraDly received,
which led investigate further and found that
these two lakes not only known to Ptol-
envy, TO his photographer Agathodaemon,