Show I 1 I 1 SOLVED AT LAST the nile problem said to have been stilled settled king mwanza of uganda in a 5 and n d unexpected fit of rood good humor which la Is hoped will continue has baa recently permitted tho the Buor malls to pass t through b ull his bli country and like likewise w pl fass a s sundry u nd r y supplies adapted to zhe cheer e r t the h heart 0 t ofemia of knien pasha tho the fr friends lon d a 0 of afi t that h aar b beleaguered beleaguer e league red ed gentleman it e man have bavo accordingly received from him within tho the past raw few weeks a several everal welcome letters and for a while wo we shall very likely hear bear from him a good deal oftener than from froin stanley Stonley ills letters lettera show that this remarkable roan man la Is pursuing his bla labors as enthusiastically us is though ho he had not privations of a nil 11 sorts and enemies on two sides of him to occupy his bid thoughts emin pashas latest lotter latter tells that he has baa discovered a aou southern affluent of the albert nyanza this la III a most significant announcement for it probably means that he has so aosved ive thelast the last problem relating tu to tho the sources of the nile when gordons great lieutenant asset circumnavigated circum navigated the albert nyanza in 1876 he be declared that the lalio lake had no effluent lluent al of any importance and that its southern ity was a marsh BO thickly covered with that lie he c could 0 uld not penetrate it ills conclusion was R ce opted by geographers and for years the albert nyanza has been represented on not as ono one of tho the niles sources but merely as a backwater into which the nile fell only to emerge a little further north such faith was reposed in gessile accuracy that oven tho the later statement or of mr mason that ho he had reached the south shore of albert nyanza and saw thare a river 1200 feet wide pouring its sluggish current into the tha lake did not receive ge general ne alon very low few 9 geographers ers or mapa have div given en mason credit fo for r this mar 11 ds covery the report from emin pasha which reached europe last week will doubtless b bo 0 accepted as aa sivo there li b n no 0 likelihood kel 1100 0 of any ally large division of opinion among goo geo gra Kra phera hers na As to thos from which albert lbert nyanza anza derives these southern waters i almost directly south or of albert nyanza stanley discover discoverer etl in 1870 a great ako known as muto mato nelgo A distance of only jonly mites miles it la 18 believed separates the two lakes in muta neige la Is lower than victoria nyanza and therefore it cannot how flow into the latter lake there aro are several good reasons for believing it la not tributary to the congo conce among them the fact that tippa bibs traversed the entire country west of it a gree agree that no river from muta mum neige reaches the congo Cong 0 all our information to the conclusion that masons red river allver leads leada the waters of muta to albert nyanza and the Ni Nl leand that the sources of egypto preat great river until tills this time lime only partially known are at length fully revealed vea leil it will be a fresh laurel for emin eman pasha if his confirmation of masons discovery finally settles the vexed question of tho the niles sources it wilt also bo a proud feather in tho the cap ap of ptolemy for tho the two lakes in which ho he fixes tho the sources of tho the white nile occupy approximately tho the positions on hla his map in which victoria nyanza and muta aro are fount found on the maps mapa of today to day now new york sun suit |