The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE LATEST NEWS FROM KHARTOUM.
Intelligence from Khartoum--Retreat of the Slaves--Influence gained over Traders' People--Sail from Gondokoro--The Nile cleared of its Mystery--The Victoria Source--Ptolemy's Theory--Rainfall--Affluents of the White Nile--Action of the Abyssinian Rivers--Colonization impossible--Slavery the Curse of Africa--Impotence of European Consuls --Impossibility of convicting a Trader--Central Africa opened to Navigation--Tribes of Central Africa--Vestiges of a Pre-Adamite Creation--Geological Formation--Hypothesis of Equatorial Lakes--Sir Roderick Murchison's Theories confirmed--Sir Roderick Murchison's Address