Show discoveries ii in tE eastern heastern africa the intrepid and scientific travellers trav ellers cap talus taina burt barton and spoke con conquering bering a thousand difficulties succeeded in penetrating 11 the continent between I 1 Is la t ules four degrees south to the depth of six hundred miles ralles over land that the foot of a european never trod before the remarkable discoveries they made madel consisted of two fresh water lakes those of and N nanya a a tile the bare existence of the first of v which bf ch only had been known while that of the latter by far the largest had bad riot not even been a inspected j we shall confine our notice lake nyanza as the most important it vi was as found to lie feet abo above e the level of the sea and hence about three times higher than the lake of geneva its breadth as estimated estia ted at fro from in forty to ninety miles and its length c conjectured I 1 at three hundred which alch would rive give it an area eual to that of two thirds of ireland this mighty inland sea is conjectured by captain speke to be the t true and long ion sought so aught P lor for source E of the nile ilie a question which has puzzled civilized men for two thousand years ears and is still unsettled in I 1 our judgment the question is 13 more of words than substance every great river has many sources Bour ces ard it depends on the nomenclature to which of the several contributing streams ho he may give the name which practice leab has assigned we have however howe vei no doubt but that the water of the lake nyanza does con 1 tribute largely towards feeding tile the cl classic abac I 1 stream the inundation of which is the source of the fertility of that egyptian valle valley y 1 which I aich for thousands of years has exercised so large an influence on the civi lation of man of tire country and pt crople ople seen by bv our enterprising ter travelers we hav but a few words to say tile the land is en et dently less favored by nature that than that of the western side of the continent and the negroes are physically 1 and even mentally inferior the eastern 1 ide aide possesses no navigable rivers leading t to 0 th the e sea as does the western nor has it the gold or the vala valuable able valm palm oil of the latter its corns consist of millet avd ai d maize the latter received from america through india with for arri irrigation aaion nota not a grain office of rice the main cereal ot of ia tropics is is grown by the rude and stupid inhabitants I 1 the only valuable product is coffee still however in a wild state only this is a peculiar rie cullar indigenous plant in this part of africa although we call it arabian because we first derived it in in its cultivated state from that country the common fowl and oxen the latter used only for their flesh atal and small milk 1 ilk but not for labor are the only animals I 1 which i aich have been domesticated the horse is unknown and so BO is is the hardy ass as except to a few arabian settlers man then has here no help in his toil without which bich any respectable progress towards civilization is impossible A hardy coarse cotton is 19 grown and the art of weaving a fabric of corresponding quality is is understood so is if the art of making malleable iron the highest stretch of negro civilization in in this part of africa letters are unknown to the negroes of the eastern coast as indeed t hey are to all african negroes the staple le eap exp exports 0 rt a consi consist of the bodies of the inhabitants in fit bondage and tusks of slaughtered elephants the imports cor correspond ond in in value it would be but to dece deceive v e rat the ge public to promise a beneficial commerce with such a country and such a people london examiner Ex ammer |