LAKE LINCOLN. 
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river called Lualaba, which flowed northward, westward, 
and in some places southward in a most confusing way. 
The river was from one to three miles broad. Following it 
northerly he discovered Lake Kamolondo in lat. 6° 30’ S. 
He traced the river southward to Lake Moero, where ha 
saw it issue out of this lake through an enormous and deep 
chasm in the mountains. Satisfied that this Lualaba wa9 
the Chambezi which entered Bangweolo, or the Luapula 
which entered Moero, he retraced his steps northward to 
Lake Kamolondo. He came to a river flowing from the 
west, called the Locki, or Lomami, which issued from a 
large lake called Chebungo, situated to the south-southwest 
from Kamolondo. To this Lake Chebungo Dr. Livingstone 
gave the name Lake Lincoln, after President Lincoln, whose 
sad fate the civilized world lamented. To the memory of 
the American President, whose labors in behalf of the black 
race won his entire sympathy and approval, the great tra- 
veller has contributed a monument more durable than 
brass, iron or stone. 
“ Still working his way north, bit by bit, against several 
and varied difliculties, along the Lualaba’s crooked course, 
as far as lat. 4° S., he heard of another large lake situated 
to the north in the same 4 central line of drainage as the 
four other lakes; but here he was compelled to turn back 
to Ujiji. Against this compulsion his iron will and indo- 
mitable energy fought in vain ; his men had mutinied and 
absolutely refused to budge a step, and to Ujiji lie was ob- 
liged to return, a baffled, sick, weary and destitute man. 
It was in this state your correspondent met him only 
eighteen days after his arrival. So far had the traveller 
gone north that he was at the beginning of the final and 
certain end. Six hundred miles of watershed had been 
examined carefully. At the beginning of the seventh hun- 
dred the false slaves sent to him from the British Consul 
at Zanzibar, and who were to him as escort, rose up. against 
him, saying in their determined actions: ‘Thus far you 
shall gc and not one step further.’ 
