Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-09-04


Ihe notion il quite prssaisna shaa tha
explorations Of tha pazt twenty-fiV
years have oompletsly solved sha prob
len o. the sources % the Nile. The
fast il. however, that the mystery e the
Alle's heAdHaters Il nos yel entirely dis
palled. We have fuilsf knowie3re %.
day Of that later problem. the so1rees
Of tho Congo, than Of the interesting
question that baflisd ReeQrapners for
sRes until cpeke partially solved is
Likes Victoria and Albert NvanEA
we're discovered respectively By Speke
ind Sir Samuel Baker. and for years
these great sheets of waller appeared on
the maps as thetWin sources Of the Nile.
In 1876 aesai Pasha. enc Of General Cor
don's assistants, otfaamnavigated Albert
Nyanxa In q steam lAanoh. TIE deaua
aquatic vegetation af the southern end
prevented him from reaching the shore,
bua from bic masthead be could see no
river, and dorins his ioufnsy be did nos
discover q single tmpoEtaal tributary.
Efom his voyage dated tha notion that
Albert NyanEa is net q soarce, bat only
backwateR Of the Nile. into whiah the
river p0nrs mersly % emerge again . lie
tie further norlh.
IN the sane year STANLEY, trsvoiinQ
due west from TIE north end Of Fictoria
NyanxA, reached Z laFQs Iaks, shieh be
supposed 20 Lake Alhegt, not knowing
thal Gessi bad fxod tho southeFn limit
Of thas sheet Of water. This laka 4
believed, from native Information, 10
Be about 40 miles long and 30 cover
about 300 square miles. It's noFth end,
httie nortn Of the equatoF. is sup.
posed 70 be sixty or eighty miles soalh
Of Albert Nyanza. Its native mans is
Maia Nzige.
A pear later Albert NyanEa vas sx-
pl0red = second time By Mason Bey, who,
Reaching the south shere, made q very
Important discovery that had escaped
9easi Pasha. he f0and q river coming
from the seuih about 800 feet IL width,
reddish In color, which poured ifa Stag
giah stream into ths Albert Ny&nxa.
Neither this river nor Maia NziRe has
yot been explored. and Reogrsphera
are divided 10 opinion as 70 whether
TIE large lake feeds the Nile OF the
Congo.
Tue question has some political as
we'll a. geographical interest,", for the
reason that the Berlin Conference last
year agreed that the northeast limit Of
the Congo Free state should be she "a
81 pa4taAA DItNttl tut lH4ao aAA tae
Nile systems. II Mafa Nzige feeds the
Nile. Z theory that ~ Supported By The
best geographical authority on several
excellent gr0ands. a large region tribu-
taEy 10 the lake cannot. Is % present,
nRure much longer on the map Of the
Congo state.
Stanley argues that dula NEigs must
empty into the Congo beoansa, N bis
opinion. the Lira and Lain. tributaries
Of THAI river, haFs not space enough,
without the help Of this lake. te collect
their large volume Of water. Il can Be
said, however, that without Sue lake
they have as mach dFAinaae ARA as
some other I'm ortant AfFioau rivers
possess. Wifhout oBumorating here the
many reasons fos believina that Muta
Hzigs q 0ne Of sha sources of the Niies
Il may be mentioned that Il ID very dim
e1lt % explain how 10 Il thas tbe Nile
cmerRes from the Albert NyanzA with
nearly deubio the volume Of water i
p0as into u, unless thai small lake
is oonaeoted With the far more i'm
pOrtanl source Of suppiy tusi q little
south Of Il.
TheFs can hardly fail 20 Be 40 angie
supply ef voluuteers for Afriean ex-
ploFafion service e. long as there is
light stih 70 BE- she'd upsn 90 interesting
. pfoblsm as The soaFess Of the Nile.