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128 sold her for £2000; but lost this afterwards through the bankruptcy of the banker with whom it was deposited.

15. See Irving's "Life of Columbus."

16. A kind of cuckoo, so called by the natives.

17. This was before Stanley explored the north of Tanganyika with Livingstone, and found the Rusizi river to be an influent. If there should be an effluent in the direction of the Kabogo mountains, to the west, this might join the Lualaba; and so possibly (according to Livingstone's theory), the Nile. Perhaps Lieutenant Cameron, now at Ujiji, will discover this. But Schweinfurth's discoveries seem to prove that this could only be by way of the Albert Nyanza; not by way of Petherick's branch, the Bahr el Ghazal.

18. Named by Livingstone "Victoria Falls." The native name signifies "sounding smoke." Mr. Oswell, who was with Livingstone when he first discovered the cataract, and had seen Niagara, gave the palm to Mosi-oa-tunya. The Mowana is the gigantic Baobab tree of Africa. The Mohonono tree is said to be like a cedar, and the Motsouri like a cypress. For a full account of the falls, see Livingstone's two books of travel. The water (of the river Zambesi, or Leeambayee) clears a moment as it falls, becomes a sheet of foam, or rather a sheet of comets of foam, separate from one another, with