How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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It However Discharges Itself Into
Egypt; And Egypt Lies, As Near As May Be, Opposite To The
Mountains Of Cilicia;
From whence to Sinope, on the Euxine Sea,
is a five days' journey in a straight line to an active
Man; and
Sinope is opposite to the Ister, where it discharges itself into
the sea. So I think that the Nile, traversing the whole of Libya,
may be properly compared with the Ister. Such, then, is the
account that I am able to give respecting the Nile.
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2. Webb's River must be traced to its connection with some portion
of the old Nile.
When these two things have been accomplished, then, and not till
then, can the mystery of the Nile be explained. The two countries
through which the marvellous lacustrine river, the Lualaba, flows,
with its manifold lakes and broad expanse of water, are Rua (the
Uruwwa of Speke) and Manyuema. For the first time Europe is made
aware that between the Tanganika and the known sources of the Congo
there exist teeming millions of the negro race, who never saw, or
heard of the white people who make such a noisy and busy stir
outside of Africa. Upon the minds of those who had the good
fortune to see the first specimen of these remarkable white races
in Dr. Livingstone, he seems to have made a favourable impression,
though, through misunderstanding his object, and coupling him with
the Arabs, who make horrible work there, his life was sought after
more than once.
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