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AT the meeting of the Geographical Society on March 14 Mr. James Stewart, C.E., of Livingstonia, read a paper on Lake Nyassa and the Water-route to the Lake-region of Africa. In his preliminary observations he remarked upon the fact that, though the lake is but 350 miles in length, no fewer than seven different languages are spoken on one side only, all belonging to the Great Bantu group, and that natives from the south end cannot understand those at the north end. He dwelt upon the advantages the Livingstonia missionaries enjoyed for performing geographical work at an exceedingly small cost, though their other duties prevented them from doing very much. Mr. Stewart afterwards gave an account of his journey up the western side of the northern part of the lake and thence to Tanganyika and back. During this he passed one stream, the Mera, which he thinks may be considered one of the most remote of the sources of the Congo. Mr. Stewart concluded by stating that he was shortly about to return to Lake Nyassa, where he hoped to have opportunities for resuming his geographical work in opening a route to the south end of Lake Tanganyika.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 23, 495 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023495a0
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