190 Notes on the Congo River. 
our winter and the northern in our summer, 
bringing the rains and the swellings of the tro¬ 
pical rivers when it is in the zenith with regard 
to them, so surely can it be predicated, from a 
comparison of the rainy seasons and times of 
rising, that the Lualaba belongs to no river of the 
northern hemisphere; in the southern hemisphere 
Africa possesses only one river, the Congo, which 
could take up the vast water supply of the 
Lualaba/’ The Brazil shows the curious feature 
of widely different and even opposite rainy 
seasons in the same parallel of latitude; but this is 
not the place to discuss the subject. 
Since these lines were written, I have to lament 
the collapse of the Livingstone-Congo Expedition. 
In 1872 the great explorer’s friends, taking into 
consideration the prospect of his turning west¬ 
ward, organized a “relief” from West as well as 
from East Africa. Mr. J. Young, of Kelly, 
generously supplied the sinews of travel, and Mr. 
Clements R. Markham, Secretary of the Royal 
Geographical Society, lent important aid in pre¬ 
paring the exploration. Navigating-Lieutenant 
W. J. Grandy, who had seen service on the 
eastern coast of Africa, landed at S. Paulo de 
Loanda in early 1873, and set out from Ambriz 
in March of that year. The usual difficulties 
were met and overcome, when Lieutenant Grandy 
was summarily recalled. The official explanation 
