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ever, delighted with the prospect of a month's 

 leisure for inquiry amongst the intelligent Arabs. 

 It was also necessary to copy out notes, which 

 ill health had left in confusion, and to learn 

 something about the southern as well as the 

 northern regions. Moreover, if truth must be 

 told, I sighed for the 



' Beafca Solitudo 

 Sola Beatitudo ' 



of the Pisan Cortosa. A critic in Colburn's 

 New Monthly Magazine (The Nile Basin), re- 

 marks, ' It was when travelling with Burton that 

 Speke first discovered Lake Nyanza, and his less 

 fortunate fellow-traveller seems never to have 

 forgiven the brilliancy of an achievement which 

 left him comparatively in the shade.' Mean, 

 indeed, must be the man who thus gratuitously 

 imputes the meanest of motives to another ! 

 What interest can the leader of an expedition 

 have in reducing his field of exploration, of not 

 doing his best, of not discovering as much as 



hearsay, and that of June, 1859, after the southern part of the 

 lake region, now known as the ' Victoria Nyanza,' had been 

 discovered by Capt. Speke. In the former, however, he 

 added the ' Mountains of the Moon,' and prolonged the lotfg 

 parallelogram from N. lat. 2° to N. lat. 3° 20', a country 

 known by the reports of the Egyptian expedition of 1810, of 

 Dr Peney, and of MM. Miami and Vincent Angelo. 



