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and succeeded in reaching the great lake Tenganyike 800 miles 
long, and: 80 broad, which lies about 700 miles from the coast. 
Captain Speke proceeded from Uny ake to another vast in- 
land lake called Nyanza, the south end of which was fixed by 
him at 2° 30'S. lat., and 33° 30’ EH. long. It is estimated to have 
a width of about i Sent and is said to extend northward for 
upwards of 300 
Sir Roderick I. Maxshison; President of the Royal Geographi- 
cal Society of London, in his annual address gives the following 
account of the discoveries of Burton and Speke which are par- 
ticularly amen in reference to the long disputed problem of 
the Sources of ile. 
“Returning to phos from Aden, both Captains Burton and 
Speke sought and obtained employment i in the Turkish contin- 
gent of the allied armies operating in the Crimea. Thrown out 
of their military career by the peace, they returned to the east 
coast of Africa, with the view of exploring the country from the 
coast of Zanzibar as far inland as might enable them to ascertain 
the real g geography of the interior in that latitude. 
‘“ Aided by the late Colonel Hamerton, our meritorious consul 
at Zanzibar, and by Seyd Majid, the second son of the Imaum 
of Muscat, now the Prince of Zanzibar, the travellers made an 
is shill asi. of sandstone and siuelline rocks, the true 
character of age, will be ascertained when Captain Burton's 
specimens arri 
is Chanting | from the coast range to the aang interior plateau 
land, at a lower level, and travelling over some poor lands, they 
reached a rich country in which knolls or bosses of granite and 
basalt rise up like rocks in an ocean. The country is exclu- 
php peopled by negroes, none of whom are Mahomedans, as 
ar ast. 
“Like the a geod by Livingstone, yonave 2 no 
rare among them. Their co country ete | cotton, tobacco, 
maize, sweet potatoes, a great variety of pulses, manioc, Canes 
ee and melons; they manufacture iron, cotton fabrics, 
lave abundance of cows and goats, and live in comparative 
