PART I.—My new mission—_The Daily Telegraph_—“_Yes; Bennett_”—

The _Lady Alice_—My European staff—Disappointed applicants and thoughtful friends—My departure for Africa. PART II.—The Sources of the Nile—Herodotus on the Nile—Burton on the Nile basin—Lake Tanganika—Lake Victoria—Speke, Grant, and Cameron— The Livingstone River—The work before me 1