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THE letters from Dr. Livingstone lately read at the Royal Geographical Society, give the grateful assurance, not only that he was in good health and spirits in July 1868, but also that he was under no apprehension of ill-treatment from the Cazembe. Visiting that chief without a numerous escort, he created no alarm. He has, in truth, notwithstanding seeming difficulties, been singularly fortunate; for his rumoured death and expected captivity have created a sensation of much greater value to him than the discovery of the Nile's sources. Dr. Livingstone's account of his journey northwards from the Aroangoa is in general reconcilable with those given by the Portuguese expeditions, with some difference, however, arising from difference of route. He seems to have crossed that river much further to the west than Monteiro, whose line of march was ten or twelve miles more west than that of Lacerda. He saw mountains, he tells us, and the Portuguese saw none. Herein he is greatly mistaken: Monteiro's expedition crossed over the flanks of a wondrous mountain, supposed to be a Portuguese league (about 20,000 feet) high, with trees, population, but no snow on its broad summit. The account of this mountain, called by mistake Muchingue (the glen or defile), given by a writer in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (vol. xxvi.), improves the original by a precise statement of longitude and latitude, and by a description of the panoramic view from the summit to a distance of 200 miles.
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S., F. Dr. Livingstone's Explorations . Nature 1, 72–74 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001072a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001072a0