Show Living stones L letter otter to hill bib brother in C canada ans da B lat last ball ibL toronto 19 the following is dr letter to tn lis brother lu in caluda NOT nor 16 1861 to my D dear ear bruther 1 I received your welcome we in ID february last when the be cable news maje made you put off our sulla this ws was the tha trat intimation I 1 had that t L at the cable had been successfully cess em fully laid in id the deep atlantic very lew jew letters have reached me in ill consequence of iny IDY friends friend speculating whether I 1 should cooie come out ont on the west wes coast down 1 tho he ide aile or elsewhere the water sh ched 1 la Is a broad up upland land between four and five thousand feet above tho the sea and some twenty miles long 1009 the springs 0 of I 1 the nile that ill rise thereon are arc almost BO lama innumerable met that it would told i 10 tho the best part of a mans life thue lime to count them ono one part gi 61 miles wide gave Z 32 8 fro horn calf to wait deep or one spring for every two miles A birdseye bir dicye view of them would bo be lic hla n or frost front on window panes to ascertain that all these fountains were nere united with lill the four great rivers in the nolier part of the N niles ale N alley was a wort work optime of lime and much travel an and many a weary foot I 1 trod ere era light dawned on the ancient pro problem blent if I 1 had bad left at the end cod ortho of wo years acara bior which my expenses were paid I 1 could have thrown very little more light libb on 1 the he country than the who io ill 1 their heir three to asked for ivory and slaves and heard no nothing h 1 else Is I 1 asked ailed shou about the water and an I qua t and cross questioned till I 1 was r really ashamed and afraid of being be act t down X a afflicted with hydro cepha ins I 1 went forward backwards sod and jd ewas feeling fi my way and every etta tel ol 01 tho the way J I 1 was rally gro groping in iho 1110 dark for who cared where rivers rau ran of these four rivers rivera into wh which ich the of the nie Coo converge verge I 1 the b e one is ia called ludara Lui Lu laba daba and a d to iii the iho largest it I 1 begins us as I 1 the h a ac which flows into he great balc on leaving ic kf u me is bivall Chaw bezo to MAW anil and that enters lake a tl lorro oro coming out or of it the name is resulted and it flows flow into a third laic which decet es ca one of the jour four laro large drozds rc 08 mentioned built it then DOWS OD and makes two t enormous born fous head to ibo west which made we too often fear that I 1 haq a following ful lowing the jong instead of the nile kile it is from one to three miles milca broad and Q never can be waded a a ny point or any timo time of the year F far at all down own the valley it re crivea another of the four la large nicra mentioned above the lakic T to or Tor borrome rollic flows through what 1 have bayo named lake lincoln and then joma joins leutral Lau laba wo we have then only two lines of drainage in the loer part of the treat great valley that is in tanganyika gika and albert lale lake which are arc but one ona LIO itle or river or ky bay if you want to bo be river river those thon two form tho the eastern lino line of the Lu aloba which I 1 call webbs Lu aloba is then tho the western lino line nearly dearly as depicted by ptolemy in tho the second of our el era a talc atler r the iho L enters iho Lu Lus aloba loba tho the fouth great lao lake in the central line of drai drainage is iii round found mt thu this I 1 have nol dot seen bur bartl et the line joc between the eastern aud western maina at alie top of loop the the great central line goes down into large arge reedy lakes bly those reported I 1 d iu centurion and these lonii fo jtb the e western or Vet hericks arm arin blitch and ad unlit grant aud and biler believed to be i a river of egypt egypt me can bo ald tho the nile nie unit they u nice tin the lakes mentioned iu in the I 1 lino line of f drainage are by no do meaos means ludall lilo 1446 L ilo at I 1 the bo lowest etiman eti elt iniste mat is IB ono one hundred bad fifty fit ly wil cuili long I 1 tried to toca crox to the lb breadth exactly the first was tj ao a inhabited island twenty lour four fulla ui ilif the second stage could have bavo iceo crobu lla its higia A point fiut or top af the tree it lifted up ly a all a the third stage of abo hap ciaio bod ass said roid lo 10 bo be as fir beyond dju as a the canoe buco had bad stollen the canue L they boy got a binl that ito real owners were acte IQ puri pursuit sult bud aud tal got into 4 11 hurry t tj 3 cut turn homo home oh that they would I 1 nut I 1 had odly my coverlet lett to hire biro neither cranfi slid and the lake lain being latt act above the ihn son ken it il was u very cold 80 I 1 ravo gave jn in and went bak blak but I 1 balle bolido 0 ohp to lo bo be and seventy milea boero and are arc looked on oa as ono one of I 1 hp he PT viet Ti verine inkabi tak ana an is ia one lot of r 1 10 I lo 10 other oilier is i gilis wi ih idi I 1 flood mex aily north ili idle person in bondon a t which with killing un modestly oil I 1 X r lia cuti fled lid open and adil new papers even tho tunes rails mila tit at any bonow one lie iio and fani larea dured find the country different that in lis hia JI I 1 am a trot great sinner in f lh fist poor follows opinion and tinus im ravinara even when 1 W win 14 imort unwisely ild in to 10 be dead the work of iriina 10 follow the iho central lines or nr drainage down low hastAk hm llan tn in buo away front from tho the moil the montcena Mont cina ore nrc undoubtedly cannibals but lg b 0 ro re I 1 could get ed bave thereon I 1 was sorely let and hindered by alving half calto moslem I 1 rated cowards and falso false a their 1 let of whoso religion the they aigul abed a commo fu pride they force forced me hack back when almos io night of fribo be oda en J of bly exploration ci a al disuanco di stance of between lour four unix and five h u n dred miles milc under a a belizi a lf vertical still bun I 1 ume lumo here a nicra mete rac or bo bones ricus terribly jaded iu in body and mind mf bly head bead man and my a moslems reigned hero here and as they had done dodo front from the 1 lie coast ran riot with I 1 1 the goods sent life le and bere iere bruak for a month at a time lie ile then divined on the koran and found I 1 was dead still sold all the ilia goods that remained for clavel and money for hirow lf and I 1 arrived to 16 find myself destitute desti tulo or every thin ihirg clee a aw I 1 left i cabic caoili 5 1 are currency y thero hero slid I 1 have to wait now till tall ther goods and other men camo came from yari zanzibar brandy opi opium amand and gunpowder from certain ui ravan nw british anti ali subi cers ho he waa 1 1 months ll 11 apenes turned out my three L roe were ample then IP I I 1 P hero here sold old off all you call thi rua ma t do you somo some do if you dont thiril 1 l 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