506 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



of the lake, he crossed the Marungu country, and reached Lake Moero ; and 

 finding its chief influent the Luapula, he ascended its course to the point 

 where it flows out of Lake Bangweolo or Bemba, a lake nearly as large as 

 Tanganyika itself. The most important feeder of this lake he found to be 

 the Chambezi, so that all doubts as to the course of that river were set at rest. 

 In the hitherto untrodden land to the north, this great and constantly in- 

 creasing volume of water pursued its winding course ; and he braced himself 

 up to the effort of tracing it to a point where, under some other name, it was 

 already well known to geographers. From this lake, Livingstone, in the first 

 place, went to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, where he hoped to find stores await- 

 ing him, and where he could recruit himself for the accomplishment of the 

 arduous task he had set himself to accomplish. From his letters we already 

 know how sadly he was disappointed in his hopes of material help from Zan- 

 zibar. "While waiting there among rascally Arab traders and their slaves, 

 and equally rascally natives, corrupted by their association with those worth- 

 less representatives of the civilisation he had been cut off from for nearly 

 three years, he longed to explore the shores of Tanganyika, and settle the 

 question of its effluent ; but Arabs and natives alike were so bent on plunder- 

 ing him for every service rendered, he was compelled to abandon his design. 

 Although worn in body, and scantily provided with stores and followers, he 

 determined, in June 1869, to march across country until he should strike the 

 great river which he knew flowed northwards out of Lake Moero. At Bam- 

 barre in Many em a land, as we know, he was laid up for six weary months 

 with ulcerated feet. So soon as he had recovered he set off in a northerly 

 direction, and after several days' journey struck the main artery of his line 

 of drainage — the Lualaba, a magnificent lacustrine stream, with a width of 

 from one to three miles. This great stream pursues so erratic a course, flow- 

 ing northward, westward, and even southwards, in wide loops, that he was 

 frequently fairly at fault as to its ultimate course. Sometimes he thought he 

 was working away at the Congo, but at last he was completely satisfied that 

 its course was northward. After following it up to its outlet from Lake Moero, 

 and confirming its consequent identity with the Luapula and the Chambezi, 

 he retraced his steps, and saw it lose itself in Lake Kamalondo. As many 

 of the great streams on the watershed were named Lualaba by the natives he 

 christened the stream which flows from Lake Moero to Lake Kamalondo 

 "Webb's Lualaba," to distinguish it, and also to do honour to one of his 

 oldest friends, Mr. Webb of Newstead Abbey. 



Several days south-west from Kamalondo, he discovered another lake 

 called by the natives Chebungo. This he named "Lake Lincoln," in honour 

 of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United states during the war of 

 secession. Its principal effluent he named "Young's Lualaba," in honour of 

 another fast friend, Mr. Young, of Paraffin oil celebrity; "Sir Paraffin," as 



