Africa and its inhabitants . amolondo itself develops an extensivefluvial system, bounded south by the great divide betwt^n the Cong., comprising such large /». or rivers,- as the Lu-Ban. the ula. theLu-Laba, and the Lu-Fira. The last mentione<l is obstructed by umuerous 420 WEST AFRICA. picturesque cascades, such as the Juo falls, where the white foamiug waterstumble down a height of 80 feet between rocky red sandstone walls. The mainstream on the contrary flows through a chain of lakes, of which the largest,known as the Lo-Hamba, lies secluded in the upper valley, w
Africa and its inhabitants . amolondo itself develops an extensivefluvial system, bounded south by the great divide betwt^n the Cong., comprising such large /». or rivers,- as the Lu-Ban. the ula. theLu-Laba, and the Lu-Fira. The last mentione<l is obstructed by umuerous 420 WEST AFRICA. picturesque cascades, such as the Juo falls, where the white foamiug waterstumble down a height of 80 feet between rocky red sandstone walls. The mainstream on the contrary flows through a chain of lakes, of which the largest,known as the Lo-Hamba, lies secluded in the upper valley, while the others followalong the lower course like a string of pearls on a necklace. Reichard, whocrossed it at over 120 miles above the confluence, asserts that of the two Lua-Labas the Kamolondo is the most copious, and although not the longest, should onthis accoimt be regarded as the main branch of the Upper Congo. On the other Fig. 207.— U-NTAiTEZI, ACCORDING TO EehAKDT AND 1: 20,000,000. ~^~~^sy^t. AjaiNta/fa^ewi . .joo Miles. hand the Tanganyika emissary sends down very little water, and was even drywhen first visited by explorers. Lake Tanganyika. Tanganyika was long known to the Portuguese and Arabs, and is mentionedunder various names in numerous documents of the eighteenth century, althoughgenerally confounded with Nyassa and other lakes. The three basins of Nyassa,Tanganyika and Nyanza are even merged in a single inland sea stretching northand south across thirteen degrees of latitude, and still figured as Lake TJ-Nyamezion Erhardt and Rebmauns map of 1856. But this great Mediterranean has beenresolved into its three constituent elements by the memorable voyage of Burtonand Speke in 1858, and the subsequent explorations of Livingstone and Stanley. TANGAJSTYIKA. 421 Of all the Central African lacustrine basins, Tananpka is now the bestknown, and a comparative study of Livingstones map with accurate subsequentmeasurements shows that it had alread
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