Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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five into a third receptacle—twenty-tliree in all.
Not having seen the Nile in the north, I forbear
any comparison of volume. I trust that my
labours, though much longer than I intended,
may meet with your Lordship's approbation.
" I have, &c.
(Signed)
" David Livingstone."
" P.S.—Always something new from Africa :
a large tribe lives in underground houses in Rua.
Some excavations are said to be thirty miles long,
and have running rills in them—a whole district
can stand a siege in them. The "writings"
therein I have been told by some of the people
are drawings of animals, and not letters, otherwise
I should have gone to see them. People
very dark, well made, and outer angle
slanting inwards."
of eyes
No. 11.
Extract of Letter from Dr. Livingstone to Dr. Kirk,
" Ujiji, May 30, 1869.
"As to the work to be done by me it
is only
to connect the sources which I have discovered
from 500 to 700 miles south of Speke and Baker's
with the Nile.
The volume of water which flows
north from latitude 12° south is so large, I
suspect I have been working at the sources of
the Congo as well as of the Nile.
" I have to go down the eastern line of drainage