Nov. 18, 1869] NATURE 73 
but state distinctly that it communicates with other large | river into many branches. “ These branches,” he goes on 
lakes. Dr. Livingstone, describing the flooded state of | to say, “are all gathered up by the Lufira. .. . . Ihave 
the country, tells his experience of two rivers which flow | not seen the Lufira ; but, pointed out west of 11° S., it is 
into the north end of Moero: the Luo, which was | there asserted always to require canoes. .... This is 
crossed by the Portuguese, thirty miles south of | purely native information.” Now it is quite possible that 
the Cazembe’s town; and the Chungu, near which | the traveller totally misunderstood his native informants. 
Lacerda died, about ten miles south of that place. From | They spoke of the waters to the S.W., and he understood 
these particulars we cannot help concluding that the | them to speak of the N. or N.E. The great river Luviri, 
Moero of our traveller, who has found the country in a | called by the Arabs Lufira, flows into the Luapula from 
state of flood, is the Carucuige of the Portuguese, or at | the west, about 100 miles S.W. or S.S.W. from the 
Cazembe. The Lualaba, the sacred river of the Alunda, 
whence their forefathers emigrated, still farther west (a 
month’s journey), falls into the Lulua, and so joins the 
least that these names apply to parts of the same great 
marsh or lagoon. At the eastern side of it, visited by Dr. 
Livingstone, is the Fumo Moiro, whose title is probably 
taken from his district. Manoel Gaetano Pereira, who | Zaire. The great salt marshes, which chiefly supply the 
first visited the Cazembe, related, that near the chief’s | interior of Africa, are situated on its banks at its southern 
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town he spent a whole day wading breast-deep through a | bend ; these may be the Ulenze above described, if it be 
lagoon. It was subsequently found that the lagoon in | not a marshy tract lying between the sources of the two 
question was Carucuige. The strength of the Cazembe’s | rivers. The native information here given cannot be 
position lies in the difficulty of approaching it through a | received as perfectly pure. When our author speaks of 
labyrinth of swamps, lakes, and wide drains. The Por- | the Luviri entering Tanganyika at Uvira, he evidently 
tuguese spent some hours in crossing ariver, as they called | casts the dimly discerned views of the natives into his 
it, two miles wide, on matted vegetation which sank under } own preconceived mould, and clothes them in his own 
their feet. This and the Lotnde above mentioned were | language. 
probably the connecting arms of large lakes. Respecting the languz 
Our traveller informs us, that “the Luapula, leaving | informs us that “the people are known by the initial Ba 
Moero at its northern end by a rent in the mountains of | instead of the initial Lo or U for the country.” This is 
Rua, takes the name of Lualaba, and, passing on N.N.W., | not merely confused, but also, we believe, wholly erroneous. 
forms Ulenge in the country west of Tanganyika.” He | The initial U never forms the name of a country, but the 
saw the Luapula only at this gap in the mountains. | collective name of a nation, chief, and people. The 
Ulenge is a lake with many islands, or a separation of the | Portuguese, who on this point are the best authorities, use 
» of this country, our author 
