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called Méhoya, which is specially interesting from having regular lake 
villages on its waters. He discovered also that the Lomané is a dis- 
tinct river from the Kassabé, receiving a large stream called Luwembi 
from the west, coming from a lake called Iki, probably the Lake Lincoln 
of Livingstone. Katanga, the famous copper-yielding district, within the 
territory of Urua, is situated between the rivers Lualaba and Lufira, 
which unite, and the combined stream, after flowing through a chain of 
small lakes, receives the Lualaba of Livingstone, which is really the 
Lurwa. The united rivers then flow through Lake Lanji (the Ulengé 
of Livingstone), and past Nyangwé to Lake Sankowa, and thence, as 
the Congo, to the sea. Cameron ascertained the names and positions of 
all the different tributaries of these rivers, and will be able to give a 
complete account of the hydrography of this newly-discovered region of 
the Upper Congo. 
After many vexatious delays, Cameron, accompanied by the mulatto 
Alriz, set out from Kasongo’s country for Benguela. His course led 
him past the sources of the Lomané and the Luwembi, and close to the 
sources of the Lulua he came upon water flowing to the Zambesi. He 
traveled over a rich table-land, with numerous streams, to Sha-Kilembe’s 
town, which he reached in September. The nights were cool on this 
elevated plateau, and on two occasions there was actually frost, when 
Cameron enjoyed the feeling of the crisp soil crunching under his feet. 
Sha-Kilembe is the Ya-Quilem of Ladislaus Magyar. It is on the river 
Luméji, a tributary of the Liambeje, in latitude 11° 31! south and lon- 
gitude 20° 24! east. 
As the travel-worn party approached the goal, all nearly spent, and with 
supplies at the lowest ebb, their leader performed an additional journey 
of a hundred and twenty geographical miles, in order to bring assistance 
to his native followers. The route led from Sha-Kilembe to Bihé, and 
thence to the Portuguese town of Benguela, on the shores of the Atlan- 
tic, where Cameron arrived last October, and whence he proceeded to 
Loanda to recruit his health. Thanks to the forethought of the Vis- 
count Duprat, the great traveler received every attention and much 
kindness from the Portuguese officials. As soon as he has found means 
of sending his other followers to Zanzibar, he will return home with old 
Bombay, the veteran servant of former travelers, and a small boy nam 
Jacko, who accompanied him from Unyanyembe. 
When Cameron arrives in this country, and fills in the details of the 
mere skeleton route which is now before us, we shall have a story of 
unsurpassed interest, whether we consider the great geographical dis- 
coveries he has made, the new regions he will describe, or the personal 
narrative of the intrepid sailor himself. 
But Cameron’s extraordinary merit rests mainly on the number and 
value of his scientific observations, The total distance over which he 
has marched from Zanzibar to Benguela is 2953 miles. Along this 
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