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medal of the Royal Geographical Society. We ourselves attach the chief im- 

 portance to the observations made over that four hundred leagues of new 

 region which no European foot has trodden except that of the Lieutenant. 

 These observations, which are, like all taken by the gallant officer, extremely 

 careful, must, together with his descriptions of the people and the face of 

 the country, open up to us fresh scenes and perfectly novel tribes ; and were 

 it for this alone we should pay the homage of a sincere admiration to the 

 explorer. But the most debated portions of his work are the supposed disco- 

 very of an outlet to the Lake Tanganyika, and also the identification of the 

 Lualaba with the Upper Congo. We hope, and are inclined to expect, that 

 one or perhaps both of these announced discoveries will turn out to be accu- 

 rate, although at present a haze of uncertainty hangs over them, which cannot 

 be dispelled by the generous and patriotic feeling shared by all alike to see 

 our countryman's triumph rendered as perfect as possible. The Lukuga 

 may well be the outlet of Tanganyika, but there are still two points at least 

 to clear up about it — the first, how an effluent from such a bod}? - of water, 

 with such a slope to descend to Nyangwe, could have so slow a current ? and 

 the next, why Livingstone's path through the Bambarre district never crossed it? 

 So, again, if the Lualaba at Nyangwe be, as Lieutenant Cameron says, only one 

 thousand four hundred feet above the sea, there is an end to any idea that it 

 can find its way into the Nile, and the odds are overwhelming in favour of 

 the theory that it runs to feed the Congo. This gives a fall of thirteen hun- 

 dred feet from Tanganyika to Nyangwe, which is possible enough, but does 

 not leave too much elevation for the further course of the Congo-Lualaba ; 

 while, if we hesitate at the immense volume of water which comes from Bemba, 

 Moera, Kamolondo, and Tanganyika, we cannot forget that the ' Moeinzi- 

 Enzaddi' is, in its lower course, one of the deepest of known rivers. 



" On the highly probable supposition — which Cameron's journey has 

 greatly strengthened, though not positively affirmed — that all those vast 

 sweet-water seas empty into the Congo channel, the approximate certainty 

 which the traveller has obtained well deserves the recognition which the Pre- 

 sident of the Royal Geographical Society is prepared to give, and the mighty 

 Nile itself must look forward to being content with the divided glory of a 

 sister stream. The Congo in this case will prove one of the noblest water- 

 ways on the globe ; and flowing as it does through one of the fairest countries 

 ever beheld, an immense and splendid future for civilisation and commerce 

 seems opened up by Lieutenant Cameron's journey. We must, however, ask 

 for special verifications of the altitudes taken at Nyangwe, and for careful 

 comparisons of them with the levels obtained elsewhere, nor is it necessary 

 to the correctness of this part of the Lieutenant's discoveries that the Lukuga 

 should be the outlet of Tanganyika. We must not forget the reiterated re- 

 ports conveyed to Sir Samuel Baker of a connection by water between the 



