When it was perceived that the little river that leaves the Nyanza, though they called it the White Nile, would not account for that great river, they might have gone west and found headwaters (as the Lualaba) to which it can bear no comparison.

Taking their White Nile at 80 or 90 yards, or say 100 yards broad, the Lualaba, far south of the latitude of its point of departure, shows an average breadth of from 4000 to 6000 yards, and always deep.
Considering that more than sixteen hundred years have elapsed since Ptolemy put down the results of early explorers, and emperors, kings, philosophers--all the great men of antiquity in short longed to know the fountains whence flowed the famous river, and longed in vain--exploration does not seem to have been very becoming to the other sex either.

Madame Tinne came further up the river than the centurions sent by Nero Caesar, and showed such indomitable pluck as to reflect honour on her race.

I know nothing about her save what has appeared in the public papers, but taking her exploration along with what was done by Mrs.Baker, no long time could have elapsed before the laurels for the modern re-discovery of the sources of the Nile should have been plucked by the ladies.

In 1841 the Egyptian Expedition under D'Arnauld and Sabatier reached lat.