770 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



thousand spearmen provided by King Mtesa, he reached the Albert Nyanza, 

 on January 12th, 1876, but was prevented from navigating it, and returned 

 by the same route, having in his journey passed the great mountain Grambara- 

 gara, and seen some of the strange white race living on its summit. Further 

 description of this interesting tribe will be eagerly awaited. They cannot 

 be Albinos, for there is a whole tribe of them. Mr. Stanley says they are 

 not the light-hued Warundi, nor Arabs; and if they are Wahuma, the descend- 

 ants of Abyssinians, they would not show their singular capacity for with- 

 standing cold. As we have before remarked, Signor Gessi, from Colonel 

 Gordon's camp, effected his exploration of the Albert three months after 

 Stanley's visit, but, being always in his boat, heard nothing of our Joint 

 Commissioner's excursion. 



" The Geographical details of this journey are important. What Speke 

 and Grant named Lake Windermere now appears to be one of many deep 

 lakelets, composing the lacustrine River Kayera, which, in Mr. Stanley's judg- 

 ment, rivals the Shimeeyu as the parent-feeder of the Victoria Nile and its 

 reservoirs. The thermal springs were heard of, and volcanic cones were seen 

 by Speke and Grant, but are now for the first time described. Our Joint 

 Commissioner was, however, obliged to abandon the investigation of the east- 

 ern side of the Albert, and diverted his course to Ujiji, which was only fif- 

 teen days' journey distant when he despatched the last of these communica- 

 tions, which will be published on Monday next. It is dated April 24th, 1876, 

 and was brought by an Arab trader, passing to Unyanyembe. It may be 

 reasonably believed that, about the middle of last June, Mr. Stanley was safely 

 arrived at Ujiji, when he would find letters and newspapers, giving him intel- 

 ligence from Europe, the first received since the copies of " The Daily Tele- 

 graph," conveyed by the kindness of Colonel Gordon. By those papers, our 

 Commissioner had heard of Cameron's voyage on the Tanganyika, and of the 

 supposed discovery of its outlet ; but it appears that Stanley intended to 

 examine the matter more closely, and visit the unexplored part of the lake. 

 Thence it was his purpose to attack the Albert Nyanza by its western coasts, 

 where the country is quite unknown. But we have long ago forwarded to 

 Ujiji the full details and maps of Lieutenant Cameron's journey to Nyangwe, 

 and across the continent, and if these reach Mr. Stanley before he sets forth 

 northward, it is probable that he will adjourn everything to the all-important 

 task of following the Lualaba down from Nyangwe, which Cameron failed to 

 do, and thus, in the only certain way, settling the chief of the grand prob- 

 lems still remaining in African geography." 



"Port of Dumo, South-Western Uganda, 

 August 15, 1875. 

 u The Anglo-American Expedition has arrived at last in Uganda, but it 



