| Show tue TUB SOURCES OP or THE ulin nile among amono at our telegraphic advises advices today to day is a dispatch from bombay dated lith lust which states that a gentleman in that city named kirko kirke had received a letter from doctor livingstone written some fifteen months previously in the interior of africa in which the great traveler states that he has reason to believe that he had discovered the source of the nile at a point ten or thirteen degrees south by which we suppose ten or thirteen degrees south of the equator is understood according to the latest received opinions developed by the travels of captain speke and others tile the nile rises under the equator in lake nyanza but should these speculations of dr livingstone liv Pg stone prove correct the nile is some seven or eight hundred miles longer than is at present supposed these sources of the great river of africa in the absence of further information are most probably found in the almost unexplored centgraf central regions between banguela Ben guela on the tho western coast and mozambique on the eastern at a point parallel with the northern extremity of madagascar it is also lily highly lily probable that these streams empty into nto lake lako nyanza in tho the neighborhood of its southern limits thence passing through tho the lake emerge as the stream visited by captain speke the telegram also states that a letter of a still later date has come to hand from I 1 sean scan I 1 bychich by which we suppose zinzo bar or a as it is variously spelt is intended stating that the trading carh carm an from the interior had arrived on the coat and had that livingstone had reached wherever that mav bo be and was on ils lis his road to the coast in safety from these statements if they be true we may hope that the doctor lg Is still alive an and ana dwell well weil and is prosecuting his great labor of disco discovery verv and that the late forebodings respecting his bis fate will prove unfounded we sincerely hope dr livingstone will live to return to his native country to give to the world the results of his perilous and indefatigable labors in the cause of science and humanity |
