934 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



merits as a principal, if not the chief fountain-stream of that mighty river 

 whose secrets they were engaged in unveiling. 



" The task thus pretermitted, has now been to a great extent discharged 

 by Stanley, during his journey last summer from King Mtesa's country to 

 Ujiji; and in the present communication he gives particulars of this very im- 

 portant new tributary of the Nile, which go far to alter our ideas of the region 

 between the Victoria and Albert Nyanzas and Lake Tanganyika, while they 

 add a large though yet undefined body of water to the marvellous system of in- 

 land seas which fill Equatorial Africa, and leave it still eminently possible 

 that the Nile takes its ultimate rise in tracts as far off as Manyema, or even a 

 yet more distant spot. 



" Henceforward, however, we must not call this interesting stream by 

 any one of its native appellations. The ' Kagera,' or ' Kitangule,' which flows 

 into the Victoria Nyanza at Usogoro, has received from our Explorer — who 

 has traced its course through three hundred and ten miles, and found it still 

 wearing the appearance of coming from at least an equal distance — the name 

 of the ' Alexandra Nile.' By that illustrious title Mr. Stanley begs that the 

 river, with its reservoir, may be hereafter known ; and the details of it which 

 he forwards constitute, it will be allowed, a fair claim to so proud a distinc- 

 tion. With the guidance of the map which we reproduce this morning from 

 that transmitted in our Joint Commissioner's despatch, the course of the 

 Alexandra Nile may be tracked upwards along the Explorer's line of march 

 from the point where the Kavare enters it, to the Morongo Falls, where the 

 lagoon-like ' Windermere ' empties itself into the narrower channel ; and so 

 past the hot springs of Mtagata, the town of King Rumanika, and the many 

 lakelets which are fornied on the way from Kishakka to the spot below the 

 ' Mount of Observation,' where it comes down on either side of a large island 

 that fills up the eastern extremity of a Nyanza to which Mr. Stanley's map 

 gives a length of about sixty miles, and a breadth of about thirty. Our 

 Joint Commissioner could not explore this large water, which has been 

 hitherto only hinted at upon the maps by a small lake marked ' Akanyara.' 

 His furthest point westward appears to have been the ' Mount of Observation,' 

 from which the high hills of Ugufu shut out the Nyanza behind it ; but he 

 had found the Alexandra Nile maintaining a remarkable depth and swift cur- 

 rent, while his guides assured him of the remaining particulars. If they be 

 correct the Alexandra Nyanza is half as large as the Albert itself; and the 

 Alexandra Nile runs through it, entering at the western extremity, in Ruanda, 

 from a country as yet unknown. 



"The fierce nature of the tribes intervening between Mr. Stanley's 

 furthest point and Mkinyaga seems to have made it impracticable for him 

 to complete this momentous discovery without such sanguinary collisions as 

 he has always shown himself anxious, if possible, to avoid. We must there- 



