Africa and its inhabitants . -, the sea is reached by theO^owav, largest of aU the rivers between the Niger and Congo, and like theGaboon at first supposed to be also one of the great continental ^ven after Livingstones discover) of the Lua-Laba, by him wrongly supposed tobe the Upper Nile, many geographers fancied that this emissary of the greatCazembe lakes might trend westwards to the Ogoway, and it was this theory thatgaAe occasion to the expeditions of Oscar Lenz and of other explorers in this Fig. 187.—Supposed Couese op the Ooowat before the late DiacovERiES. Scale 1 : 0,0
Africa and its inhabitants . -, the sea is reached by theO^owav, largest of aU the rivers between the Niger and Congo, and like theGaboon at first supposed to be also one of the great continental ^ven after Livingstones discover) of the Lua-Laba, by him wrongly supposed tobe the Upper Nile, many geographers fancied that this emissary of the greatCazembe lakes might trend westwards to the Ogoway, and it was this theory thatgaAe occasion to the expeditions of Oscar Lenz and of other explorers in this Fig. 187.—Supposed Couese op the Ooowat before the late DiacovERiES. Scale 1 : 0,000, Depths. 0 to 640Feet. MO Feet andupwards. ...... Courae accoidinf* toK epeit Tiue course - 1-20 Miles. region. But although occupying a much humbler position than had beensupposed, the Ogoway still sends down a greater volume than either the Rhine orthe Rhone, or any other river in the west of Europe. At the same time theestimates of 1,580,000 or 1,760,000 cubic feet per second during the floods areprobably exaggerated; and allowing even that four-fifths of the rain falling withinits basin of 120,000 square miles ultimately reaches the sea, the mean dischargecannot greatly exceed 350,000 cubic feet per second. The farthest headstreams of the Ogoway, which has a total course of about720 miles, rise in the Ba-Teke territory, within 120 miles west of the its junction with the Passa, the main stream, already navigable for boats, at
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