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Title: The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Geddie, John, 1848-1937
Subjects: Rivers -- Africa Africa, Central -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rse and character of the Lualaba, but hestill believed that it was the Nile. At this point theriver is a full mile in breadth, flowine- north-west- 9 n> wards with a deep rapid current of a pale gray tint,between low banks, and sprinkled over with littlegreen islands covered with sedge and trees. Somedistance below, a great tributary, the Lomame, fallsinto it on the opposite bank. The main stream ofthe Lualaba, Livingstone was told, was not the branchwhich he had traced between Lake. Bangweolo andLake Moero, but another river, rising in a chain ofmountains in the south, which joins it in LakeKamolondo. The inhabitants on this stream livedin strange underground dwellings. — galleries andchambers excavated in the soil or chiselled out ofthe rucks. Near its head were copper-workings,and its source was in a fountain on a rounded hill,from a spring in which also flowed the Lomame;while on it- southern side were tin head-springs oftli.- Zambesi, and of its chief* tributary, the Kafua I
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DANGERS ON THE WAY. 161 The Mountains of the Moon! was the doctorsmental note, the hills Crophi and Mophi! the Foun-tains of the Nile! the ancient Mines of Copper ! theTroglodytes ! Here they all are, just where Ptolemyand other venerable authorities placed them; andother explorers, who are wandering astray in searchof them to the northward, have turned their backson the true beginnings of the sacred river of Egypt.And in this firm belief he ceased from seeking tofollow up the Lualaba, and turning his own backupon the sources of the Nile, resisting the entreatiesof Stanley, and the natural longings of his heart torevisit home, he followed what he was persuaded wasthe marked-out path of duty, leading him to theenigmatical fountains which he had heard of amongthe savages of Manyuema. Cameron, the nextcomer to that country, was told quite a different taleby those accomplished fictionists; and, by meanswhich were not in Livingstones power, he provedthat the Lualaba could not be the Nile,

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