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Notes on the Congo River. 
exploration point (about south latitude 6° 30, 1 and 
east longitude, G. 22 0 ), it pursues a north-easterly 
direction and, widening several miles, it raises 
waves which are dangerous to canoes. The waters 
continue to be sweet and fall into a lake variously 
called Mouro or Moura (Mordve or Maravi ?)* 
Uhanja or Uhenje (Nyanza ?), which is suspected 
to be the Urenge or Ulenge, of which Livingstone 
heard in about south latitude 3 0 , and east longi¬ 
tude (G.) 26°. The Hungarian traveller naturally 
identified it with the mythical Lake Nyassa which 
has done such portentous mischief in a day now 
gone by. Ladislaus Magyar also states : 2 “ The 
Congo rises, I have convinced myself by reports, 
in the swamp named Inhan-ha occupying the high 
plateau of Moluwa, in the lands of the Luba, 
uniting with the many streams of this region ; at 
a distance of about five days from the source it 
becomes a deep though narrow river, which flows 
1 Petermann’s “ Geog. Mitt.” of i860, pp. 227-235. I have 
duly obtained at Pest the permission of Professor Hunfalvy, 
who in 1859 edited the Hungarian and German issues, to trans¬ 
late into English the highly interesting volume, the only remains 
of Ladislaus Magyar, the traveller having died, Nov. 19, 1864, 
after visiting large and previously unknown tracts of south¬ 
western Africa. The work has been undertaken by the Rev. R. 
C. G. O’Callaghan, consular chaplain, Trieste, and I hope that 
it will soon appear with notes by myself. It will be a fitting 
pendant to Dr. de Lacerda’s “Journey to the Lands of the Ca- 
zembe.” 
2 “Geog. Mitt.” 1857, p. 190. 
