662 LIFE OF DA VID LI VINGSTONE, LL.D. 



Albert Nyanza and the Tanganyika, though here, indeed, Cameron has Stan- 

 ley on his side. At any moment we may receive from our Commisioner news 

 respecting the exploration of Baker's Lake — the last and greatest secret yet 

 surviving in Africa, if we except the unseen portion of the course of the 

 Congo — and it would be curious if it arrived in time to give confirmation to 

 the view that the Nile henceforth must rest satisfied with the two magnificent 

 Nyanzas as its ' nursing mothers !' 



" Ardently hoping, then, that subsequent researches may endorse and 

 fulfil the considerable additions made to our knowledge by this young officer, 

 we yield to none in our welcome to him, and publicly add our warm recog- 

 nition of the fresh lustre which his courage and perseverance have cast upon 

 the record of British work in Africa. We trust that the Government will not 

 be behind the representatives of geographical science in marking their sense 

 of the good service performed by Lieutenant Cameron. When it is remem- 

 bered that he was out of reach of all help and knowledge for nineteen months ; 

 that wherever he has gone the people have had reason by his conduct to think 

 well of Englishmen ; and that, whether fully confirmed or not, his discoveries 

 are certainly among the most remarkable of the generation, public opinion 

 will not be satisfied unless he receives, at least, his promotion from the Ad- 

 miralty, with such other proofs of favour as precedents allow. His services 

 on the East Coast of Africa already gave him a clear title to the C. S. I., for 

 which his African tramp has newly recommended him ; less than these official 

 signs of approval would be too little. Meanwhile, the interest of his passage 

 across the wonderful continent will turn public attention with fresh fascina- 

 tion to Africa, destined so surely to play a splendid part in the history of the 

 earth's development. It will make thoughtful men more and more anxious 

 to rescue the beautiful paradise which Lieutenant Cameron will describe on 

 Tuesday next from the slave-drivers, and to bring into the music of humanity 

 those ' black notes ' on the world's key-board which have been too long and 

 too mournfully silent." 



A special meeting of the Royal Geographical Society was held in St. 

 James's Hall on April 12th, 1876, to hear from Lieutenant Cameron an account 

 of his Explorations in Africa. The Hall was crowded in every part, and the 

 platform was occupied by a large company of distinguished visitors, including 

 Sir John Hay, M. P. ; Sir. G. Campbell, M. P. ; Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M. P. ; 

 Mr. Clements Markham, etc. A number of maps, diagrams, flags, and relics, 

 illustrative of Lieutenant Cameron's narrative, were arranged about the plat- 

 form. On His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and Sir Henry Raw- 

 linson entering the Hall, accompanied by Lieutenant Cameron and some of 

 the leading members of the Society, the audience rose en masse and cheered 

 heartily. 



The Duke of Edinburgh, who was received with great cheers, said — " I 



