Abstract
A SPECIAL number of the Mouvement Géographique is devoted to a series of important despatches from M. Alexandre Delcommune, chief of the Lomami expedition of the Katanga Company. Entering the Lomami from the Congo, the party left the river on May 13, 1891, and explored the entirely untraversed territory between its upper valley river and that of the Sankuru as far as 8°S. Thence they turned eastward and reached Lake Kassali on the Lualaba, and struck south through Garenganze's country to Bunkeia. Making a circuit through Katanga and westward, they found the Lualaha near its source, and following it for 200 kilometres, discovered a grand gorge at Nzole, where the river flowed in a succession of wild cataracts between cliffs nearly a thousand feet high, and not more than forty yards apart. From the rapids they returned to Bunkeia, travelled north-eastward over the plateau, cro-sing the Luapula at its outflow from Lake Moero, and ultimately reached Lake Tanganyika. The difficulties overcome were very great, and the sufferings of the caravan have rarely been surpassed even in the grimmest records of African travel.
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Geographical Notes. Nature 47, 209–210 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047209a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/047209a0