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Updated: June 3, 2025


That prince of explorers had not fully solved the riddle of the waterways of Central Africa. He had found what were really the head waters of the Congo at and near Lake Moero; and had even struck the mighty river itself as far down as Nyangwe; but he could not prove that these great streams formed the upper waters of the Congo. Stanley's journey in 1874-1877 led to many important discoveries.

From the latter, indeed, it is barred by the water parting of the Welle, the "Babura" of Jules Poncet , in the land of the Monbuttu; whose system the later explorer, Dr. Schweinfurth, is disposed to connect with the Shari. Hydrometrically considered, the Lualaba, which at Nyangwe, the most northerly point explored by Dr. But the Lualaba may issue through the Congo. Dr.

He was here detained six months, suffering severely from ulcers in his feet, which prevented him putting them to the ground, and from thence it was, when again able to set out, that he discovered the course of the Lualaba, which occupied him till the year 1871. From Nyangwe, as before mentioned, he was compelled to return eastward to Ujiji, a distance of seven hundred miles.

As to passing them by Benguela, or St. Paul de Loanda, that is not possible. We must, then, return to the factories of the interior. This is what old Alvez intends to do. He will go from the Nyangwe and Tanganyika side to change his stuffs for ivory and slaves. Business is always profitable with upper Egypt and the Mozambique coast, which furnishes all Madagascar.

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