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ised. The veteran traveller had at last succumbed to the fatigues which his 

 vigorous frame and indomitable spirit so long enabled him to endure, and all 

 that remained to be done was to arrange for the transport to the coast of the 

 dead body which the natives had reverently guarded. Fortunately, also, the 

 Doctor's papers were found, and these Lieutenant Cameron took charge of, 

 and provided for their safe conveyance to England. The complete story of 

 the Lieutenant's subsequent proceedings has yet to be given to the world. 

 The first instalment will be submitted to an early meeting of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society, which has already by anticipation expressed its sense of 

 the value of Mr. Cameron's discoveries ; and it is to be hoped that before 

 long the whole of the interesting details will be published in a permanent 

 form. 



" What may be described as the most sensational feature of the Lieuten- 

 ant's explorations relates to the Congo, the great western river whose sources 

 have hitherto been shrouded in as much mystery as those of the more famous 

 Nile were for so many centuries. Mr. Cameron discovered the outlet, on the 

 west side of Lake Tanganyika, of a magnificent stream, which he identified 

 as the head waters of the Lualaba, and the Lualaba he believes to be identi- 

 cal with the Congo. Unfortunately, he was unable to verify this conjecture 

 by following the entire course of the river, but his hypothesis is accepted by 

 the most eminent geographers as a probable one, and at least as trustworthy 

 as that which assigns the equatorial chain of lakes as the source of the Nile. 

 The problem will, no doubt, engage further attention, and, in these days of 

 adventure and research, it is almost certain that the steps which are wanting 

 to give Lieutenant Cameron's assumed solution the character of a demonstra- 

 tion will be followed up under conditions more favourable to perfect success. 

 In the meantime, the Lieutenant's countrymen have substantial grounds for 

 hailing him as a genuine hero of travel ; and Liverpool especially would have 

 failed in its duty had it been backward in recognising the services which he. 

 has indirectly rendered to civilisation and commerce on the side of the great 

 continent with which so many of our merchants maintain intimate relations." 



On the 5th of April, the following laudatory article appeared in " The 

 Daily Telegraph :" — 



" Lieutenant Cameron arrived yesterday in London — with his African 

 honours not exactly blushing, but brown and sun-stamped upon him — and 

 received from a circle of intimate friends and well-known geographers the 

 hearty welcome which public appreciation will confirm. The gallant young 

 traveller is in excellent health, and has left behind him in Loanda all ill 

 results of his journey. What that journey has been he will himself explain 

 at length in presence of the meeting to be held on Tuesday next in St 

 James's Hall ; but when we add to that which is already known of it from 

 published sources — the further details soon to be heard from his own lips — it 



