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THE LAST YEARS OF LIVINGSTONE.
Kamolondo. This new lake is Lake Lincoln, and the
river is the Lomami River, the confluence of which with
the Lualaba is between Kamolondo and the Nameless
Lake. Taken altogether, the reader may be said to
have a very fair idea of what Dr. Livingstone has
been doing these long years, and what additions he
has made to the study of African geography. That
this river, d tinguised under several titles, flowing from
one lake into another in a northerly direction, with
all its crooked bends and sinuosities, is the Nile, the
true Nile, the doctor has not the least doubt. For
a long time he did doubt, because of its deep bends
and curves—west, and south-west even—but having
traced it through its headwaters, the Chambezi, through
seven degrees of latitude—that is, from latitude
eleven degrees south to a little north of four degrees
south—he has been compelled to come to the conclusion
that it can be no other river than the Nile. He at first
thought it was the Congo, but he afterwards found that
the source of this great river was the Kasai and the
Quango, two rivers which rise, as might be expected, on
the western side of the Nile water-shed in about the
latitude of Bangweolo. That the Lualaba cannot be the
Congo would seem evident from its great volume, it
being broader and much deeper than the Mississippi; and,
in addition, it has a steady northward course. It is prob¬
able, Livingstone thinks, that this river may turn out to be
what is known as Petherick’s branch of the White Nile.
The entire question will eventually turn on the compara-