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THE WONDERS OF AFRICA. 
“ According to Livingstone two things yet remain before 
the Nile sources can be said to be discovered. First, he 
has heard of the existence of four fountains, two of which 
give birth to a river flowing north, which is the Lualaba, 
and two to a river flowing south into inner Ethiopia, which 
is the Zambesi, thus verifying the statement which the 
Secretary' of the Goddess Minerva at Sais made to Hero- 
dotus over two thousand years ago. He lias heard of them 
repeatedly, and has been several times within a fortnight’s 
inarch of them, but something always interposed to pre- 
vent him going to see them. These fountains require to 
be seen. Second, remains the link above described to be 
explored. The stories which the Doctor relates of the two 
immense countries through which the great river runs read 
like fable. The most southerly is called Rua ; the northern 
is called Manyema by the Arabs, and Manuema byr the 
natives, who are cannibals. He tells of ivory being so 
cheap that twenty-five cents worth of copper will purchase 
a large tusk, worth $120 at Zanzibar. He tells of ivory 
being turned into doorposts and eave stanchions by the 
cannibals ; of skilful manufactures of fine grass cloth, ri- 
valling that of India ; of a people so nearly approaching 
to whijte people and so extremely' handsome that they 
eclipse anything ever seen in Africa ; and from this fact 
supposes them to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians, 
or of some of the lost tribes of Israel ; he tells of copper 
mines at Katauga which have been worked for ages ; of 
docile and friendly people, who up to this time have lived 
buried in the lap of barbarism, ignorant that there lived 
on the earth a race so cruel and callous as the Arabs who 
have come among them, rudely awakening them out of 
their sleep with the thunder of gunpowder, to kidnap, rob 
and murder without restraint, and of many other things 
he tells. 
“The Doctor arrived at Ujiji on the 16th of October, 
the Herald expedition on the 3rd of November, eighteen 
days later, and as if guided by the hand of Providence not 
