The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-04-15

eron did not surrender his whole leisure 10
these remarkable accounts OF travel He OBJ
tanned permission from the chiefs " first wife,"
who seemed TO- be a sort Of regent to visit Lake
Mohrya "A small and isolated basin lying north
Of Kilemba but interesting us tceming with
lake dwellings. the precise fac-sllnics Of tho
Indications known TO have existed I'm Swift
z'rland before the historical epoch. Moro
prolonged and important was u second
trip southwark to Lake Knsali. which gavo
ri-e 10 ono Of Camarous most signal
dis 'ovorios. He tounl tho true namo Of
Livin .ston,s so-callrl Kamolonlo llko TO
br InuIi wherras tho nano Kamoondo
belongs to % river which unit's with the stream
flowing out at Lake Mocro before the latter fills
intotho 1au2 cistcrn. Tho native uamc Of the
latter wlt.r course is Luown. aud there Is not
the faintast Authority for identifying it with the
Luulaha. ~ Webb and Livingstone do. except n
random guess Of the Arabs The vcrItahle Lua-
laha ir ,'.e k4molOniO, which, emerging far to
the southwark from the Lohemha reservoir.
winds north 'lsterly to Lake Kisnl. forming
again. on It's northern side. q third and smaller
basin clllcd Kowlmba. and subsequently. ho-
fore les uu ton with tho LuOwJ, "a whole chall
of ldkol "a.
When klsonxo at longth appeared aft"y some
six w'oA-' absence. he nn Nibly refused Cam
eron Dntreuties TO Ice allowed To ~ ON 90 Lake
Slnkorra. Thcreupon tho laitor rclutantly
decided to march In company with Nvc1s car
AVIAN to whom he agreed TO pay itJOl to Ben
gucla; and In pursuance of this plln. toward
the end Of February 1875. lcn Kilrmha. But
the caravan pursued its journey with oxas-
porating slowness. requiring. for m-t,n 10. i've
DAYS marches To- reach T0teta. a stretch which
loaded uortnrs pagan were accustomed
O. traverse ia forty-cight hours. Hero. too.
Alvls pr'pl" were compelled 90 build now
hop- for King kasongo before they could push
ON further. During the halt the explorer again
Wtenpt"ito induce the native ruler to furnish
him with canoes. SO that he might at least trace
the Lomami az far ~ the Lunlaha but the Afri-
can prince replied that the English might ito
one of two things-cthcr proceed 10 the west
coust with Alvcz. or stay with Jumah Merchant
until the latter should sec III % visit Zanzibar.
Naturally his guest preferred the former alter
native although he was alreadythoroughly con-
vrr-ant with the instability and mcndacity Of
the Portuguese black. Not until tho end
Ut May or beginning Of juno was the
caravan once more started and now in n
southwest direction. In ten days they reached
the village of a chief named Lunga Mandi a
,a--al ol Knsongo halted there eighteen days;
iu September skirted tho LumeJi river. "A
feeder Of the Lorna. which In turn cmptir- into
th" Iambesi. and in November 1873. brought
Cameron To katonibea on tine Atlanti' ocean. a
littl" northwarl from Bengurla Throughout
most of the journey form Kicmha the route had
lain over q great table land whose right and lrft
TANKS severllly form the water sheds Of the
kn~-nhi and the Zamh ST. Al one point writes
Cameron, canal Joss than thirty miles long
would bra krt tho two great river systems Of
the Iamhesi and the Conso-indecd in the rainy
season the junction Is already oiIe ted.
Looking both % the ana -tlnta value If its
contents and the effective method OF pr"-enta-
tion. we may say Of this book that within it,
| province Il has no peer among the recent issues
from the English press. The work which it
! chronicles WIS performed under conditions Of
peculiar hardship and difficulty and the result
/ unlike the outcome II some much Wanted re-
searches. il far from being splendid
/ nuliiy. Cam'ron's performance Is something
moro than u corruseation: II IL in truth
"a monument and a key. 1t supplies
not only stimulus but plain and
authentic clue tn th" future exploration in de-
tan of q vast and hitherto unprn iratel tract OF
/ Africa. Sd.h an a'hi"y,r. M takes rank with
the wufthl.-t ol the uuth"ttri al ir.umph-
/ viii ID challenge ~ loss rcu0Wu than thosr OF
/ war -. u.n thOy involve 10 un rlItl lt-r e. tlc
I exhibition of rna iiy and harIlh1ol. coupled
/ with uo small STARE OF Tie ms Kit and ACQUIRE
ment which discharge tho higher functions Of
humanity. VI. ". IL.