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relied too much on the correctness of Portuguese informa- 
tion, and paid not much attention to it at the time, believ- 
ing it to be, as the Portuguese travellers stated, but the 
headwaters of the great Zambesi, and having no connec- 
tion with the great river of Egypt, of which he was now 
in search. This excessive reliance upon the veracity of 
Portuguese travellers and traders misled him very much, 
and caused him double work, plunging him into a labyrinth 
of errors and discoveries, making the whole country, and 
its intricate system of rivers and lakes, clear to him only 
after repeating his journeys many times. 
"From the beginning of 1867 to the middle of March 
1869, he says he was mostly engaged in correcting the 
errors of Portuguese travellers. The Portuguese when 
writing or speaking of the Chambezi invariably called it 
‘'our own Zambesi,’ or the Zambesi that flows through the 
Portuguese possessions of the Mozambique. Over and 
over again he had to traverse the countries around Londa 
like an uneasy spirit ; over and over again he asked the 
same questions from the different people whom he met, 
until he was obliged to desist, lest they might say, ‘ The 
man is mad; he has water on the brain.’ 
“ These tedious travels have established, first that the 
Chambezi is a totally distinct river from the Portuguese 
Zambesi ; second, that the Chambezi, starting from about 
latitude 11° south, is none other then the headwaters of 
the Nile itself, thus giving that wonderful river a length 
of over 2600 miles of direct latitude. During this scries 
of journeys which he made in these latitudes he came to a 
lake lying north-west from Cazembe’s. The natives call it 
Liemba or Luwemba, from a country of that name which 
bordered it on the south-east. Livingstone discovered it 
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to be an extensive heel, or rather foot of the Tanganyika. 
By his map the southern part of the Tanganyika resembles 
the southern part of Italy in configuration. The extremity 
of the Tanganyika south reaches to 8° 42' south latitude, 
thus giving the lake a length of 323 geographical miles, 
