. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . rted that on some shelf of theBritish Museum will be found a copy of In DarkestAfrica, which shall contain these maps, and that Ihave a chance of being brought forth as an honestwitness of the truth, in the same manner as I cite thelearned geographers of the olden time to the confusionof the map-makers of the nineteenth century. 294 IN DARKEST AFRICA. 1889. June. Hie Nile. In the little sketch of Homers World, which Ihave taken the liberty of copying, with a few others,from Judge Dalys * learned and valuab
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . rted that on some shelf of theBritish Museum will be found a copy of In DarkestAfrica, which shall contain these maps, and that Ihave a chance of being brought forth as an honestwitness of the truth, in the same manner as I cite thelearned geographers of the olden time to the confusionof the map-makers of the nineteenth century. 294 IN DARKEST AFRICA. 1889. June. Hie Nile. In the little sketch of Homers World, which Ihave taken the liberty of copying, with a few others,from Judge Dalys * learned and valuable contributionto the knowledge of ancient geography, it will be seenthat the Nile is traced up to an immense range ofmountains, beyond which are located the pigmies. Five centuries later a celebrated traveller calledHekatseus illustrates his ideas of Africa in a map givenbelow. Though he had visited Egypt, it is quite clearthat not many new discoveries had been made. Accord-ing to him the great Egyptian river takes its rise at thesouthern extremity of Africa, where the pigmies AFRICA IN MAP OF The next map of Africa that I wish to introduce forinspection is by the greatest astronomer of antiquity,Hipparchus, who lived 100 years His sketch con-tains three distinct lakes, but situate far north of theequator. Here follows the great Ptolemy, the Ravenstein orJustas Perthes of his period. Some new light has beenthrown by his predecessors, and he has revised andembellished what was known. He has removed thesources of the Nile, with scientific confidence, far southof the equator, and given to the easternmost lake thename of Coloe Palus. * Judge Charles P. Daly, Presideut of the American GeographicalSociety, New York. MAP-MAKERS IN GENERAL. 295 A thousand years elapse, and bring us to Edrisi, anArab geographer, 1154 Some little information hasbeen gained in the meanwhile of the Dark Interior. TheMountains of the Moon are prominent now, but several 1
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