[The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone]@TWC D-Link book
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

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E., where it forms Lake Bemba or Bangweolo, emerging thence it assumes the new name Luapula, and comes down here to fall into Moero.

On going out of this Lake it is known by the name Lualaba, as it flows N.W.in Rua to form another Lake with many islands called Urenge or Ulenge.

Beyond this, information is not positive as to whether it enters Tanganyika or another Lake beyond that.

When I crossed the Chambeze, the similarity of names led me to imagine that this was a branch of the Zambesi.

The natives said, "No.
This goes south-west, and forms a very large water there." But I had become prepossessed with the idea that Lake Liemba was that Bemba of which I had heard in 1863, and we had been so starved in the south that I gladly set my face north.


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