Daring deeds in the tropics. A thrilling narrative of remarkable adventures, terrible experiences, amazing achievements and important discoveries of great travelers in southern climes (1894) (14763801582)

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Title: Daring deeds in the tropics. A thrilling narrative of remarkable adventures, terrible experiences, amazing achievements and important discoveries of great travelers in southern climes
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: (Feather, A. G.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter & co



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i; theriver which issues out of Bangweolo and runs intoMoero, the Luapula; the river connecting Moerowith Kamolondo, Webbs river; that which runsfrom Kamolondo into the Nameless Lake northward,the Lualaba; and let him write in bold letters overthe rivers Chambezi, Luapula, Webbs River and theLualaba the * Nile, for these are all one and the sameriver. Again, west of Moero Lake, about one degreeor thereabouts, another large lake may be placed onhis map, with a river running diagonally across tomeet the Lualaba north of Lake Kamolondo. Thisnew lake is Lake Lincoln, and the river is the Lo-mami River, the confluence of which with the Lua-laba is between Kamolondo and the Nameless Lake.Taken altogether, the reader may be said to have avery fair idea of what Dr. Livingstone has been do-ing these long years, and what additions he has madeto the study of African geography. That this river,distinguished under several titles, flowing from onelake into another in a northerly direction, with all
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CHARACTERISTIC HEAD-DRESSES. THROUGH THE WILDS OF AFRICA. 179 Its great crooked bends and sinuosities is the Nilethe true Nile, the Doctor has not the least doubt.For a long time he did doubt, because of its deepbends and curves—west, and southwest even—buthaving traced it from its headwaters, the Chambezi,through seven degrees of latitude—that is, from lat-itude eleven degrees south to a little north of lati-tude four degrees south—he has been compelled tocome to the conclusion that it can be no other riverthan the Nile. He had thought it was the Congo,)ut he has discovered the sources of the Congo tobe the Kasai and the Quango, two rivers which riseon the western side of the Nile watershed in aboutthe latitude of Bangweolo; and he was told of anotherriver called the Lubilash, which rose from the northand ran west. But the Lualaba the Doctor thinkscannot be the Congo, from its great size and bodyand from its steady and continual flow northwardthrough a broad and extensive val