ANOTHER GREAT AFRICAN LAKE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1279, 16 January 1883, Page 3

ANOTHER GREAT AFRICAN LAKE

j The (ixistence.pf another. : equatorial lake in Central Africa, far to the west | of Albert Nyanzr, rumors of which have reached Europe faora time to time | since Sir Samual Barker's first journey, is again reported, this time in a, much more definite form. 'Mr F LuptoiiV: Governer of the Provence.Bahir el Ghazal, writes from his statibii, Dehm Siber, on July .27th,,t0 tho effect tl'iit .Kafai 'Aga,anjemployeo under his command, on'his return fi'om an expedition towards the XJelle, told him that he and. some of the members of tho expedition had : seeha;grßatjake in the country of Barbor, ]a ' powerful copper colored tribe," clothed with a particular grass cloth of which Mr Lupton sends a speciiiian -in-; his 'letter. MrLuptoii; gathered that the position of, the lake was; about 3deg. 40 miii. north lat,, and'23deg east long,, and that is as large as' Victoria Nyanzr, When the weather,permits, the Barboas cross the lake in large boats made out of ut .single tyee the voyage taking tliree days, and■ they obtain from'the people living on the western 8i(le (their own country being east of the lake) articles of European manufacture, such as blue beads and brass wire. Mr Lupton adds Kafai Aga's own 'account of his route to the lake : Started Jrom ; Dehm • Bekeer, inarched six days south-west to Zeriba l-el Dmjlpb, then four days soutli-south--1 west'to -Bqngier; four days south-west to Zerib'a Warendenia; six days southwest :bV west to the Bahr el Makwar, j whiclvjie crossed after visiting several very Jarge islands'inhabited by a people j jvho-.call themselves Bassango. The sMakWai' is called by-the Arabs Bahr el, "Warihal, and-adjoins the Velio, but is' : a inuiih larger stream; both flow in the wesUouth%st direction.'., cross- \ Makwar, Eafai'inarched ten, and reached the residence of ; 'the.." Sultan" of Barboa. bywhpm lie was well received. - The lake rs'situated four days' march to the ■ southyTvest.of the .Sultan's' residence, Mr Lupman concludes by saying: "I feel I: should hot be doing right in keep: ing dark the information, ~ r which, when looked into,by competent.persons, may throw, some light on the famous Congo and Uelle Eivers. • I believe that the 'TJelle flows into the lake discovered byßafai Aga, and that the,,stream which is said to flow out of the lake probably joins the Congo." Mr Lupins further. informs us thafci he is engaged in preparing .a map of his proving and:that ho was about to; start in a few days on a'journey to a country called TJnbungu, some fifteen }sW' marolf 'to''the West "of Dehm' Siber.) W •; • '