earer the epoch of the mammoth, aurochs, and others. Snow
never lay in these latitudes, on altitudes of 6000 feet above the
sea.

Some of the ancients supposed the river to have its source in the
ocean. This was like the answer we received long ago from the
natives on the Liambai or Upper Zambesi when inquiring for its
source. "It rises in Leoatle, the white man's sea, or Metsehula."
The second name means the "_grazing water_," from the idea of the
tides coming in to graze; as to the freshness of the Liambai
waters, they could offer no explanation.

Some again thought that the Nile rose in Western Africa, and
after flowing eastwards across the Continent, turned northwards
to Egypt; others still thought that it rose in India! and others
again, from vague reports collected from their slaves, made it
and several other rivers rise but of a great inland sea.
_Achelunda_ was said to be the name of this Lake, and in the
language of Angola, it meant the "sea." It means only "_of_" or
"_belonging to Lunda_," a country. It might have been a sea that
was spoken of on a whole, or anything. "_Nyassi, or the sea_,"
was another name and another blunder. "Nyassi" means long grass,
and nothing else. Nyanza contracted into Nyassa, means lake,
marsh, any piece of water, or even the dry bed of a lake. The _N_
and _y_ are joined in the mouth, and never pronounced separately.
The "Naianza"!--it would be nearer the mark to say the Nancy!

Of all theoretical discoverers, the man who ran in 200 miles of
Lake and placed them on a height of some 4000 feet at the
north-west end of Lake Nyassa, deserves the highest place. Dr.
Beke, in his guess, came nearer the sources than most others, but
after all he pointed out where they would not be found. Old Nile
played the theorists a pretty prank by having his springs 500
miles south of them all! I call mine a contribution, because it
is just a hundred years (1769) since Bruce, a greater traveller
than any of us, visited Abyssinia, and having discovered the
sources of the Blue Nile, he thought that he had then solved the
ancient problem. Am I to be cut out by some one discovering
southern fountains of the river of Egypt, of which I have now no
conception?

David Livingstone.

[The tiresome procrastination of Mohamad and his horde was not
altogether an unmixed evil. With so many new discove