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THIS is a thoroughly interesting narrative, brisk, fresh, and instructive. Mr. Young tells the story of the planting of a missionary station under the united auspices of the Presbyterian churches of Scotland, at Cape Maclear, on the south-west corner of Lake Nyassa. Mr. Young for the most part takes, us over classic ground, by the Zambesi and Shiré, over ground familiar to readers of Livingstone's earlier and his latest travels. Mr. Young in his hardy little steamer the Ilala,surveyed the north end of Lake Nyassa for the first time, discovering on its north-east shore a magnificent, range of mountains, rising to from 8,000 to 12,000 feet above the level of the lake, and which he named after his old friend Livingstone. On the opposite shore is a range of less elevation. The lake is marshy at the north end, subject to quite oceanic storms, its shores being marked by varied and most attractive scenery. The steamer caused tremendous consternation among the slave-trading Arabs, who seemed to feel that with the advent of a British steamer on the lake their occupation was gone. The settlement was successfully planted and is likely to be of service both as a centre of civilisation and of more minute exploration.
Nyassa; a Journal of Adventures whilst Exploring Lake Nyassa, Central Africa, and Establishing the Settlement of “Livingstonia.”
By E. D. Young, R.N. Revised by Rev. Horace Waller. With Maps. (London: John Murray, 1877.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 17, 99 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017099b0
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