The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-06-01
BIG AFRICAN LAKES
TRAVELLERS SOLUTION OF Thu
TANGANYIKA MYSTERY.
Fauna OF the Big Lakes Found to Be
Wholly Lacustrine Volcanoes Dam
Up Stream and Turn the water the
Other Way.

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lions have linked together much In
formation previously rather fraSmen
tary. Tanganyika was discovered b
Burton and Spoke in 1857, ana the Lot
ter brought to England a few shell
picked up on it's shore which foun
their way to the British museum. Som
or them puzzled the experts, foi
though taken from a fresh water LAX
very far inland, they strongly resem
bed genera which iRhabit the sea
They had also a curiously old worl,
aspect, as If they were lineal descend
ants OF shells which lived about tn
time when the limestones called DOL
ties were formed, or considerably be
fore our chalk was deposited. But tn,
little known about Africa had led &c
o4og1sts to suppose that, at any rate
the central and southern parts hat
been above the sea far longer tina.
th1s. In course of time, however, NOR,
discoveries were mad in Tanganyika
including shells of similar types, De
cu1ar fishes, crabs, pYawns, sHonges
and even a jelly fsh-in fact, q mum.
Der Of creatures, all suggesting thai
their ancestors had been marine. Their
IN 1897 Mr.. Moore visited the lake
and brought back collections which
placed the matter beyond doubt But
the settlement OF that question only
raised another. In what way did Tan.
ganyika communicate with the sea
some ten years ago Prof. Susss, of VI.
emma, by piecing together the inSorma.
ton gathered by travellers in the more
central parts OF Africa, came to the
conclusion that the continent on III
eastern side was travsrsed by a re.
markable group Of riffs, which had
resulted In the formation Of valleys
IN these lay the longer and narrowe,
OF the African lakes. He traced the
rift system" from Syria, along the
valley OF the Jordan, down the Red
sea, southwark into Africa. Near Lake
Rudolf 1t divides the two branches
opening out to inclose a broad tract
OF highlands in the middle Of which
Is the wide Victoria Nyanza. The
western arm passes through the AL.
bert lake, Kivu and Tanganyika, turn.
Ing eastward from the south end OF
the last to the head Of Nyassa. Here
1t 1s very probably Joined by the east.
ern branch, which can be traced TO,
q long way, passing to the west OF
Kenya and Kilimanjaro. These great
TITUS would seem to be the natural
lines OF connection with the ancient
ocean, and, If so, that could be tracked
Dy seeing which of the lakes contained
the strange creatures Of Tanganyika
so second expedition was organized
headed by Mr. Moore to examine thu
whole chain Of lakes along the west.
ern Rife Valley" from Nyassa to tho
Albert Nyanza. His former expedi.
ton had made 1t almost certain tha,
Nyassa had never been in communt..
cation with the sea. Consequently
the way could not have been from the
south. In Tanganyika he found still
more evidence Of an ancient marint
launa which had tenanted It's waters
at time when the lake covered q
much larger area. But neither in
hlVu nor In the Albert Edward lake
nor in the Albert NyanEa could he dis. |
cover any traces Of these marine craa.
lures. Their fauna. like that of Nv. |
aSsa, was wholly laeuStrine. More than
hat Mr.. Moore found that the rive,
training KiVu descends as a torrent
through an upland region to the old
head OF Tanganyika and that the for.
ner lake Is cut off from the Albert
edward by q huge mass Of volcanoes
ONE OF which are still active. Strange
IS 1t may seem he gives good reasons
or believing that Kivu had been
ormed by the outbreaking Of these
'olcanoes, which have damned up O
tream that formerly ran to the north
Ill the water at last found an out.
et In the opposite direction down ia
'anganyika. Thus, strange as it NAV
eem, the sea can only have lain to
he west, over the present basin of the
Standard.
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Near Roanoke, ILL.,, near the center
the state, there is a school teacher
hose ingenuity might not please all
his pupils-that Is, the indolent
les. E. N. Wheelwright teaches a
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u know-or perhaps some city chill
en- do not know-the teacher has to
ng the bell and build the fire and
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y to ring the bell, nor does he ring
himself, yet, no matter what he may
doing at 8 o'clock in the morning. ,
0 bell sets up a cstter that no boy
girl can escape. Mr.. WheelwriEht
S arranged a clock which at the {
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to call school. The bell rings also .
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