674 LIFE OF DA VW LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



was, on the motion of Sir Henry Rawlinson, paid to His Royal Highness for 

 his conduct in the chair. 



The proceedings then terminated. 



Two days after this meeting, the following article — -just and wise in its 

 criticism and its counsel — appeared in ' The Daily Telegraph:' — " Lieutenant 

 Cameron — we hope, after the speech of Sir Alexander Milne on Tuesday even- 

 ing, that we may soon know him as 'Captain' Cameron — richly merits the 

 honours which he has received at St James's Hall. He owns no English rival 

 save Livingstone in the feat which he has accomplished of tramping across 

 the African continent from sea to sea, and his discoveries in the Lualaha Valley 

 throw an entirely new light upon the head-waters of that wonderful lacustrine 

 system which Livingstone was the first to reveal. On the two great points, 

 however, of the identity of the Lualaba with the Congo, and of the drainage 

 of Lake Tanganyika by the Luvubu or Lukuga, we must frankly say that 

 the fuller details supplied by the young traveller's narrative leave a great 

 deal still to be discovered. Entirely sympathising with the pride felt by the 

 Royal Geographical Society in the explorer — with whom they allowed them- 

 selves to break off contact and succour only too long — we must indicate the 

 necessity for remembering the laws of geographical logic even in the generous 

 flush of a first re-union. As to Tanganyika, it is a lasting pity that Cameron 

 did not follow his Lukuga down from the lake instead of taking Livingstone's 

 path to Nyangwe. The consequence is, that we have still nothing but the 

 fact that the Lieutenant saw water slowly effluent just below Kasenge, and 

 heard a chief's report to the effect that it drained the lake into Lualaba or 

 Lurwa. The chief may have lied in order to please. The effluent may be 

 one of the many grassy backwaters into which the Tanganyika throws an 

 eddy; and an inspection of Livingstone's map will show that he twice crossed 

 the track of this hypothetical outlet, which, leaving an enormous basin of 

 water, fed, in its lower part alone, by ninety-six rivers, has yet only a knot, 

 or a knot and a half, of current. No lake can have two active outlets, and 

 this one certainly appears at present unequal to the task assigned to it, espe- 

 cially with so immense a fall in the surface between Tanganyika and 

 Nyangwe. Again, as to the identification of the Lualaba with the Congo, 

 it must be borne in mind that the Lieutenant has not seen with his own eyes 

 more than a league or two of the river beyond what Livingstone beheld. 



" All is still conjecture past that point where the great channel which 

 the Doctor saw going north, was witnessed turning westward — possibly for a 

 short bend only — by Cameron. The position of the Lake Sankorra — the 

 nationality of the ' trousered ' traders — the reported westing of the river — 

 even the destination of the Kassabe — are matters resting entirely on native 

 stories at present, and all know how absurdly these mislead. We must, of 

 course, allow that the weight of probability is strong on the side of the theory 



