, 1875-11-10
THE NILE MYSTERY.
Judge l)nty OF, African I5xplora-
tiOn,
he Regards Stanley as tho Disooveror
Of the Source Of the Milo,
Ftolomy's Geography Tfntlfcatetl...Mak.
lnE Known The Resources Of
Nrcat Continent.


Ing Known The Resources Of
y t'rcat Continent.
htp FORK Herald, fop. Il.
- Lat Thursday night, At tho meeting Of Il,
Geographical Society," Cl.ief Justice D.ly,
z speaking Of the efforts made 10 sulya tho ura,
!, mJstory of tho Nto's source, took occasion /
fepost AL assertion he made yeaEa aiuce, who
k tho discoveries OF Speko aud Dlkor wero pub
i!ahed, aud also to express an opinion rogardn
!, tho pluoky young journalist now inycstiuatinJ
Il tie Fatorsloda Of Equatorial Africa.
CHIEF JUSTICE DALY'a nEnAags.
1le said: Tho evening bolng devoted to Afrt
ca, canuot sutEor II to pass without nottcinf
tho important result thus far OF tle o1petlftion
OF Mr, IL. H. Stanley, sent out by the Nav
ioRk Herald aud tho London Ttlgraph. Alto,
journey, Of great peril, attended by the
loa8 OF about haf h!a command, md which vas
Carried through by the lntlomltablo perseverance,
ana courage BY which 5lr. Stanley lias htl,orto
baen distinguished. llo succeeded IN toacliuu
tho southern shore Of tho viotorj. N;van,.
wheto speka's grcat discovery was made. md
has beon sbo NTH eu,all vonseI to oxplore I'm
castorn ssda of tho lake, hitherto unknown and
aa SPOKE aud Grant had in 1901 e4nlorel tbo
woatern side. tho resutt Of bfr. Rtanieys success-
1Ai aHosta Is that tho whole Of tho lake IL uo,y
known md tho streams that fow Into it, 1t IL
J Impossible TO overostmato tho vaiuo OF this or
Hptatioh &s IL br'n8s tho lonK-yo1ed quoBttoa
OF The SOURCE Of tho Nile nenrcr to . aolutiou
than anything that has get boon dono.
AAaaif1cENT PoasrBtLlTrEu or srANIEY'a at1ss1oS.
mr. stanley, when last heard from. wan on tho
| northern shore Of tho lake, ard has announced
MS Intention to proceed from thence with bin
ats'o vessel to explore the Abort Nyanza. II
nia ll'e shalt be preserved, and, succeeding Ia
tnls 1urthcr exploration, he should find thst tho
ABORT Ntyanzh Ia In communication With the
LuaabA Of Livtngstoue, aud thereby counccted
with Tho great network OF riye1s aud lskoa
traced by Livingstone. Of which the Luataba ia a
part then tho Nlle will not only prove to bn the
longest river in tho world, but tho outlet Of tha
moas NOT, offensive and tue most extraordinary
tho a,se ott,ys eys'om .n1 upon tho globe. II oa
he ahouId find that tho Albert Niysuzs is not
connected with any great water system south az
N N,e eat Us Is 40 independent lake flowing into
p1'iod by streams rising in tho land immediately
sbont It, thon tho source Of tho Nile win have |
peon y eIrtasned, and quoBtiun settled that has
'si.asaa IT, iho world for mora Than 1000 years.
nation tho source Of which Nc do hot know
that tho Ntto took ts riae in mountain called
Ino H silver Mountain, which ho placed noar tic
nqnasor not far from the parallel Of Tho Island
!
7HR hEnMAHN ANIL KRApF DIsEovKRIEg.
rms mountain appears 10 DO tho same men.
tio1ed tIo by the Arabian geoeranhors IN the
M,ddle nt1 .'{s,,, ASss 70 tho White Monntsln and
K!spf ISIS Which sss'aass = moaa.a Ms?s@ aaoo
iHe. agS 1yng to the aouth and esst of
1. Tlc!o.la Nlvanza about three degrees below tla
sno., which. when free Of clouds and iu tic
suaealne, naa tue appearance OF dono of Sill
s sos: Ihoae missionaries also discovered M
other great anoH-cspped mountain Kanis, east
of tho Victoria NyAnEa and one degree south nf
re equator, Of larger sze. II not Of creator
elevation, than kitlmanjaro. which Dr., Kraof
describes 90 a. rbspR into huge wall With gigan-
mmense horna, ~ 10 csllB t4en1, o. mighty tow
lfs, giving TO tho rAolo such . grand md nsIos.
10 LOOK @ that Ae wAH overwholUed Ut tho sight OF |
:. T. 1hey also found other mountains, donot,ug
nahJhto Aro Tho nsoat elevated peaks, aud Dr.. |
t1apf was Of the opinion that tho suow melting
rom rom ~ eeese huge mnuotaias with tho tropicsi
% ~ thas Vrexog supplied Tho xatera which
aote souroa Of the Hile, Tiny found 4 muiti- l
ado OF rivnta rising amidst tlloie snow-capped :
e ~ Nebmann counted twenty flowing =
owover, flowed westward; but they found thst b
lveEa foW north aud west FROM Mount Keu,a q
I'd Dr. Krapf thought that 1t was those riyers +.
,at fp9ed imed,. tho Victoria Nissnza and hat
as tho ma1ahy and wooded country Of O
hls suggestion that blount Kenis. WITH tts ; Two ol
1est ra hosns 9f immense toEozs ia tho elsrated
10 Yiotorta Nyanza, recalls tho statement Of -
esodntus that he vas Told by tha scribe In 1T
gypt who kopt the aacred treasures Of HI X
s,Yh, .ass sho fonntatoa of tho Milo rcro mid q
10 OF which Has nanod Alphf and ths ot6or :.
aphtt 70 discoveT which fountains was The con. =.
aht object Of Livingstone. montinn tloea J
t1x aa ,of "a so.r bearing - shall pres
tofe dong 30 shall refer to fow other facts. h,
Pro1.EMr's oEooRApMi. ~ ~
Etolemy, uhoso geography Uas written In the | ea
aais G. Of the secpnd century Of era aays III
w thu wastcrn boundary Of tue Apthropa9i |. sv
tue Mountains of tho Moon, whose SHOWS "a
2 received by tha marshes Of The Nils" It
y la the m.P OF AEathodssmou Of Alersndri., Vi
iah are euppoaed to be oontemporaneous With rol
oemy, the Nils is represented ~ flowing from
lakes lying para[lal With sacl other about foR
3n,sG 9d aGess e ssnth Of hs Equator shch
aln Of mountains thst are called unon fba nan on
Mountains OF tho Noon Oil
: THE IEp1acoyERIEs or grkxE Axp BlKER. the
NY vannlyeFseEy address after the discovery xol
suo scsofla N1Janza by Spoke and OF the EoI
'e5t hiyaaza BY Baker, you may rsmenbar /
exptasaad Mo belief that thsso lskes Nara Iii
reiy !edlsooyeriea; that Bpoks and Hsksr bid Lot
lP1y !onna tue tHo Akae laid down in the old fro,
OK AtEoa pssh1sd to tho geography OF | hell
smy, and that although plAsod in uls ssxly iuci
? some 9 deg. further 10 the aouth thsn Abo
IRE thsy Wote found, thsy Tero evident tho fpr
10 tAAeb' aa ftolemy had made many errors | nlal
eapacL 70 Tue po11non Of plaCsa both north | 10 b
aoaia o. tho Equator, ~, for instance, Ia $50
osao of Cape Guazdatui, which ha PLACED 8 mat
:. tutsnef sooth than Il ta. Tha vlsw then ilet
aos7ou "as nos ~ farak very favorAbly yo- cQul
cd, which led mo to investigate further, and III
ouna t1st tAess two !skca wore not only alto
Hn to pto!eny. Or to his cartographor, /
tnoasemou, put thst tho Arabian geogra- over
y t9oui 1ne nlnta 10 tho tleYenth centuIea | Wa
es1nted o. thelE msps - tho source Of shs. dap