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Updated: May 11, 2025

He heard from the country people traditions of a Great Lake, which may be that placed by Tuckey in north latitude 2deg.-3deg.. The best seasons for travel are said to be March and November, before and after the rains, which swell the water twelve feet. About Anenge-nenge we could easily see the sub-ranges of the great Eastern Ghats, some twenty miles to the north-east.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1

In order to escape nostalgia and melancholy, which are sure to be fatal, the emigrant should be valeted by a faithful and attached native. The habitat of the gorilla has been unduly limited to the left banks of the Gaboon and Fernao Vaz rivers, and to the lands lying between north latitude 2deg., and south latitude 2deg., in fact, to the immediate vicinity of the equator.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1

Probably this was genuine geography, although he could not tell the name of the inner sea, the Achelunda of old cosmographers. Tuckey's map also lays down in N. lat. 2deg. to 3deg. and in E. long. This would suggest a reservoir alternately flooded and shrinking; possibly lacustrine bays and the bulges formed by the middle course of the Lualaba.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2