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falling in with and relieving his great contemporary. Livingstone. 

 If, indeed, that indomitable missionary, who unquestionably stands 

 at the head of all African explorers, should succeed in tracing a 

 connection between the waters of the Tanganyika Lake, where he 

 was when we last heard from him, and the south end of the Albert 

 Nyanza, why, then, the meeting of these two remarkable men 

 will be the happiest consummation of our wishes. And if that 

 should be accomplished, Sir Samuel Baker himself will, I doubt 

 not, cheerfully award the greater share of glory to his fellow-ex- 

 plorer, who will then have proved himself to be the real discov- 

 erer of the ultimate southern sources of the Nik. In waiting for 

 the solution of this great problem I adhere, in the mean time, to 

 the opinion which I previously expressed, that if Livingstone be 

 still at or near Ujiji on the Lake Tanganyika, to which place sup- 

 plies have been sent to him, he will at once proceed to determine 

 that problem, and will not think of a return to England until the 

 grand desideratum is carried out. Judging, indeed, from his own 

 original observations respecting the course of those rivers which 

 take their rise in 8 to 9 S. lat., and believing as he did that most 

 of them flow by the western side of Lake Tanganyika, and do not 

 enter that lake^ it seems to follow, that in pursuing a N.N.West- 

 erly direction several of these waters must feed the Congo and so 

 issue on the west coast. If such should prove to be the fact, why, 

 then, this great traveller will have been the first to determine the 

 true sources of both the Nile and the Congo. 



" And here I would ask why any one who knows what Living- 

 stone has undergone should despair of his life simply because we 

 have had no news from him during the last 15 months ? Did not 

 much more than that period elapse whilst he was in the heart of 

 Africa without our receiving a word of comfort respecting him? 

 By the last accounts he was hospitably received by Arabs who are 

 friendly to the Sultan of Zanzibar, who is Livingstone's patron, 

 and also a protector of the negroes. I have received a letter 

 from Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar, dated 29th June, 1870, which has com- 

 forted me exceedingly ; for, sanguine as I have been as to the 

 safety and success of Livingstone, I am now better supported than 

 ever "in my anticipation of his ultimate triumph. Dr. Kirk thus 

 writes : * News has reached me by natives from the interior that 

 the road is now clear, and that the cholera did not pass the town 

 of Unyanyembe. Livingstone is therefore out of danger, and I 

 hope the stores sent have now reached him. The rainy season 

 being at an end, Unyamwezi caravans are daily expected, and 

 will no doubt bring, if not letters from the doctor himself, at least 

 news of him from the Arab governor of Unyanyembe. The coast 

 near Zanzibar is now healthy.' Looking, then, as I do, to the 

 astonishing and enduring resolution of my friend, and his thor- 

 oughly acclimatized constitution, remembering that he has alread} 7 

 gone successfully through privations under which even his at- 

 tached negro youths all succumbed, I still hold stoutly to the 

 opinion that by reaching the Albert Nyanza he will determine the 

 great problem of the water-shed of South Africa, and then return 

 to embrace his children, to whom he is devotedly attached, and 



