is the Chambezi before it enters Lake Bemba or
Bangweolo.”
On page 261, vol. i., o f ‘Livingstone’s Last
Journals,’ he sums up v e ry succinctly what
knowledge he has gained o f the country which
was the scene o f his exploration 1866— 67.
“ First o f all the Chambezi runs in the country
o f Mambwe N. E. o f Molemba. It then flows
S. W. and W. till it reaches i i ° S. Lat. and
Long. 290 E., where it forms L ak e Bemba or
Bangweolo. Emerging thence, it assumes the
new name Luapula, and comes down here to
fall into Mweru. On going out o f this lake it
is known b y the name Lualaba as it flows N. W .
in Rua to form another lake with many islands
called Ulenge or Urenge. Beyond this, information
is not positive as to whether it enters
Tanganika, or another lake beyond that.”
On th e -18th July 1868, the discovery o f L a k e
Bemba or Bangweolo was made b y Dr. Livingstone.
On p ag e 59, vol. ii., ‘Last Journals, ’ we think
we have an explanation o f the causes which led
him to form those hypotheses and theories which
he subsequently made public b y his letters, or
elaborated in his journals, bn the subject of
the Nile Sources.
“ Bam barre, 25th A u g u st 1870.— One o f my
waking dreams is that the legendary tales about
Moses coming up into Lower Ethiopia, with
iM e r r his foster mother, and founding a city
■which he called in her honour ‘Meroe,’ may
■have a substratum o f fact.”
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1 “ I dream o f discovering some monumental
a relics o f Meroe, and i f anything confirmatory o f
¡isacred history does remain, I p ra y to be guided
»thereunto. If the sacred chronology would
'thereby be confirmed, I would not grudge the
toil and hardship, hunger and pain, I have ensu
red— the irritable ulcers would only be dis-
f cipline. ”
I The old explorer, a grand spectacle and a
specimen o f most noble manhood, in these latter
days o f his life, travels on and on, but never
reaches nearer the solution o f the problem
which puzzles his soul than the A rab depot
;|Nyangwe, which is situate a few miles south o f
■^4° S. lat. and a little east o f 26° E. long., where
,fh e leaves the great river still flowing north.
I Livingstone never returned to this point, but
■retracing his steps to Ujiji, thence to the north
■end o f L a k e Tanganika and back again to Ujiji
la n d Unyanyembe, directed his course to the
'sou th ern shore o f L a k e Bemba, where he died
o f dysentery in the beginning o f May 1873.
In the month Au gust 1874, Lieutenant Cameron,
Iwhom we left at Ujiji after the delineation o f
that part o f L a k e Tanganika south o f Ujiji, after
ftraversing Livingstone’s route to K a songo ’s,
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