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lines of drainage converge into an un visited lake west or south-west 
of this. The outflow of this lake, whether to Nile or Congo, I 
have to ascertain.” From the above it would appear that Living- 
stone had made an excursion northward from Ujiji, either by land 
or on the lake, to ascertain the union of the Tanganyika with the 
Albert Nyanza. 
News has since been received, which shows that Livingstone was 
still at Ujiji in July 1869. In January of this year, a report arrived 
from the west coast of the continent, describing the fearful end 
which the traveller had come to, of his being quartered and burnt ; 
but this report turns out to be an old story of date June 1868, with 
its plot laid on the Zambezi, and at this time we know that Living- 
stone was safe on the Chamheze lakes. 
2. The Sources of the Nile. 
The main point of interest in the latest travels of Livingstone, 
and that which gives to them a distinctive importance over the 
great accomplishments of his former journeys, is that in these 
Livingstone has undoubtedly visited and beheld the long sought- 
for sources of the Nile. It is true that there is considerable doubt 
as to which of the basins that he has explored will ultimately be 
acknowledged as the cradle of the Nile ; but this at least is certain, 
that the real head streams have been visited by Livingstone, and 
the long-vexed question has, by these last explorations, resolved 
itself into a choice between two or perhaps three main streams. 
Livingstone himself has apparently no bias in favour of one or 
other, so that the discussion is a perfectly open one. The three 
rival head streams are — first, the feeders of Lake Liemba; and, 
second, the Chambeze and its lake chain, both of which rise near 
the eastern edge of the great longitudinal plateau of the side of 
Africa next the Indian Ocean ; the third is the source recently 
claimed for the Nile by Dr Beke, in his “ Solution of the Nile 
Problem,”* the Great Casai or Kassabi river, which rises nearer 
the Atlantic side, in 12° S. Of the first of these, the feeders of 
Lake Liemba, we may say, with almost absolute certainty, that 
they are tributaries to the Nile, and it is most probable that they 
are the sources of that river. Livingstone has found these rivers 
* Athenaeum, February 1870. 
