, 1877-03-23

flhsn OF This lake Ia limited. tho rlns1nafns md
cliffs cnc'rcltn, Il hrtny ca+c to It's shores. TIN
10 tffty miles wide. nml It lies ss,lI,e 6O feet be-
low lilo surfarc If the Victoria Lake.
VIC tIarc somcthtngof tIs.llifcrrncc ut altt-
tulc q swo netgh,nring lakes Of tl,c same ,ys;
tho former hcing over 900 feet above tint OF
the hitter. A natural terrace, which, from tho
Ontario, looks likc \ 'n9'intNsn ttdcc, rises ec-
TWEEN tC M two ,o fakss; Yoa a'een tls terrace
you find Tint you nre on a higher lerof OF tho
continent, which t,,pcrccptIltly has nit ascend
tng uratle westward 70 t1le head OF tho 81. Lnw-
~ s h T. l. t9 sttE ls iauf h* % ter
givea lis lhc rapids and the falls Ut Niagara. ny
the same pruyess tho Nile, from tito Vlctorla
Lake nn! It's higher oaslu lla: cut It's way own
w ,,,ny my, TINT IN making Tits icsrcnt Of i'll
fcct, from, the one lake into the other, there
arc In the Victoria Nile, or nnn river, In a,l!,-
tiou to tile Murrhison md one Or twu other
falls mentioned ly explorers,
OTHER srl.xKpln rAtts AxD RAPIDS.
and which no white man has over yet sceli, be-
cause Of tho iinpossibility Of ascending or de-
sccndinG on foot OF bY boat tho r,c<y gorge OF
ets ID ID 'es espo1ns ts .eeion son d 'HSe se as s
struck In hcru and there ut an opening. but had
tO leave tho river from point TO p1fnt to get
rouni it, projecting rocks md cliffs. At all
events they have not accounted for its descent
Of SO icet between tho two lakes.
THE FIXED PAcTs or TtlEsE EQUATORIAL LAKEs
are tlcsc: The Victoria drains region extend.
in1 southwark t, q "dtvldgh near tho dlth tlc-
grce Of south 1att1ae; This Is the utmost
Victorla lies on terrace from 850 10 1000 fect
nbore Lake Albert, and drains nearly the whole
peninsula between tho two lakes. Tic "tliylleh
between tl's ''x Albert and TanEanylSa Lake. Is
Tanyanylko, aomo 800 miles south, lies over
100 |clow tho lovcl OF the Albert. This fact set
ties the question that LlginEstono's great sys.
ten of interior 1akcs aud rivers, to which tho
TanganrlkR belongs, h0s nj connection With
InkU AfucEt. But still 1t is not dn established
fact that Ltvingstonc's great river, Lualaba, is
the Congo.
Livingstone died IN tho belief TINT hts river,
Luala1a, which includes oil his system OF into
riUr Inkca nnd r1vcrs Is tho main stream Of the
Nile. AZ tho point whore. ho was compelled to
halt, over 10o mics 'hcyond .Nyangwe, tho
running norlIwnrd and lvlng west OF the noun
tnius on The west side of Lake Albert, and on a
lower level than that lake. then Lvtngstonc's
river tuay. be tic Bahr.el-Q Qazal, which comes
dre,ls of mcs below tho outlet q Lake Albert.
4rhwctnfurth, however, Inns settled II that for
oO0 miles west OF tno Albert Laks there is no
river flowing nurthward, but that. tho general
rlige u westward to tho Atlantic Ocean. Still
It Ii possible that Ltvngstone's great river may
be further wcst than sctlwelnlurth's llno Of
travel, aid yet LII valley tributary to tho Milo.
eG @ III H. ss Goo aua''n it, E ~ Sys s ss ,as tes
ut that polnt {tU0 miles aud moro short Of the
point reached by Livingstone, on tho patno
strta1n) ind In RHott tthwGtt tlftfctlon, ,hdNfoss-
ed thc country to tho Atlantic coast. Cameron,
Lualaua ts tbs Congo.
WE ExrECT STANLEY TO sETTLE THE QUESTION
whether tho Lualaba Is the Milo or tho Congo,
or M indcpcnacnt river, discharged Into tlio AT
interior salt lakc, the fresh water drainage into
which passcs oil by evaporation. III oir next
ictters from Mr.. stanley We expect tho settle.
tue',t ol tllls problem, not from attitudes and
such questions to sec Ia to KNOW.
LivINusT0HR'a 0nRAT rLATAAu
of hikes and rlvers, though on q much Erardcr
SCALE, may 6G compared With tho plateau Of
thousand lakes aud streams interlapptng, somu
tho hpal!wAters Of the He'd River Of tho North,
flowing into llulsonfs Bay; souIu tho sources Of
tic Mlss!sslppi,, and some the extrcmc Western
great interior African patear Of laGcs nnd rir-
ets. Including tho splendid Lake Tanganytkn We
Aavo tlla sourcca Of tho wild and rushing Zam-
bczf, a0wlAg Into the Indian Oeean, fntorlnp-
piuE with tie tributaries OF tin Lualaba, which
ts TIC Congo, or sotnu other river, flowing tuto
ti.c Atlantic, or Into drsert or 1t Is tho grand
North Of tho Tan0anyika Lake We hayo two
or from o00 to 1,O0 fest above thu other, at,,l
draining yast extent Of country east n.l,l
sullth.' Both those grcat lakes ltave been cir
cun,navlgated, und from tho "dvile" OIL tho
south: a,la the lofty mountains on the west side
of Lake Albert, W. know thu limits Of It's draIu-
nge. But with oil these discoveries
MUCH TEr ltsMAlNs UNKNOWN
of tho drainage Of the Nile. We know that
aouL, las settled 1t that thu annual humiliation
Of Egypt COMES doWn from the Nile tributaries,
wlosc eourccs lro In tho lofty mouutaiHs OF
Abyssiniaa, and Ia supplied BY tho ,delug1ng
talns aud hIgh table lands. But from Abyssuia
parallel WITH tho Indian Occat coast linc5,
though varying In its distances Of from tlfty to
2.>O OF 800 miles from the sea, there is great
west silcB Of thesa nloitnta1Ms from Aoyssina
down tu the Equator 1Dws across tho country
40 Or 100 miles into tho Nile or ia lost In Inter
vcn!ng deserts. But all this region remains un-
soa,s loo or 100 mllca east and southeast Of
| tho N!etorta Lake rlsG the lofty snOw-troWncll
cTcsts Ut Mount keni0 II, 200 tcet atd kllin,aIl-
laro 2o,00o tcct atovc the sea, from which. ut
Into tho indian Occun Tho western drainage
from these lolty mountains, wlch must bs very
heavy, y gtrcn eonlosturallY on the map-aras,
in tho "Lako Naibash, no outles,n anu next, tn
through great lake. called baElngo, tfty nLle1
west u tho Victoria Lake, aud thence lnto tue
Asl!un River, Which cmptIes Into tho White Of
main river Nile, 100 mtlcs above fontIokoro.
between the fourth md sixth degrees north lati.
tude,.wa llayo tho sources OF the large river
Rolat, anashcs Nile tsleutars, but sts SOURCES
aud IT, e1irsu at9 traccu BY guess work. Here
| VIC know but that In Mount krno anu Mount
| kilInnnjarv may be found tho nnctcnt gold Htnel