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Two letters have been received in Vienna from Dr. O. Lenz, dated, one from Lake Tanganyika in September, and the other from the River Shiré in December. This indicates that the Austrian Expedition has taken an unexpected route to the east coast. When Lenz and his companions left Kasonge, on the Upper Congo, on June 30, they made for Tanganyika, arriving at Capt. Hore's station on the west shore on August 7 Crossing to Ujiji, Dr. Lenz found that it was impossible to proceed northwards to the Albert Nyanza and Emin Pasha, on account of the Arab raids and the state of things in Uganda. Instead, therefore, of proceeding eastwards to Zanzibar, he travelled, by land apparently, to the south end of Lake Tanganyika, along the Stevenson road to Lake Nyassa, down that lake to the Shiré, and thence by the Zambesi to Quillimane. The two letters will be published in the next number of the Mitteilungen of the Vienna Society, and will doubtless contain a good deal of information of interest.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 35, 402–403 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035402b0
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