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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
which they travelled, numerous and intelligent 
tribes of natives. 
So far from ascertaining that the districts 
of this country were arid, desert, or "karoo" 
these explorators represent them as most abun- 
dantly watered, long and branching rivers flow- 
ing for miles together ; of sufficient width and 
water to admit of being navigated by large 
canoes. The most extensive of these, towards 
the South latitudes, but North of the Pongola, 
is the Limpopo; the sources, course, and lo- 
calities of which have been, of late, more sa- 
tisfactorily laid down. It appears, from pa- 
pers lately read before the Eoyal Geographical 
Society, to take its rise in the Witte Waters 
Eaand, near the Magaliesberg Mountains, about 
100 miles North of the Yaal river ; and thence, 
flowing in a North by North-easterly course, to 
pass to the Eastward, most possibly falling as 
a tributary into a larger river, which again, 
towards the Northward, flows either into the 
new salt lake, W Garni, or Lake Maravi. 
Travelling from Kurumen in a N. N. W., 
direction, Dr. Livingstone, after the first stage 
of his last arduous journey, reached the town 
23° 50' East Longitude, and discovered a course 
of Sekeletu, in 18° 17' 20" South Latitude, 
of the Sanshurch, or Chobe river, running 
East and West at 17° 28' South Latitude. Not 
