Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — REAL SOURCES OF THE NILE. [ARTICLE]

REAL SOURCES OF THE NILE.

Ancient Myths Concerning the Mountains % of the Moon. The report of Dr. Baumann’s latest geographical Investigation of tho Kagera liiver, and the country lying between that stream and Lake Tanganyika affords an interesting and important contribution to tho history of tho sources of tho Nile and a singular confirmation of tho ancient myths concerning the Mountains of tho Moon. Sept. 5 last Dr. Baumann's expedition reaohed the Kagera ltivor, and was received by the natives .of Urundl with extraordinary demonstrations of joy and respect. Ho learned that Urundt, from Ujlji to Ruanda, for ages had been ruled by kings who were supposed to be lineal descendants of the moon, and that the natives bolleved him to be tho last king, who had dlod a generation before and who had now come back to them. On Sept. 11 the expedition crossed the Akenyaru, which is not, as supposed, a lake, but a river. Dr. Baumann also discovered that tire so-called Lak Mworengo is in reality a rivor which flows into the Akenyaru, and came to the conclusion that thoro was no extensive sheot of wator in Ruanda or North Urundl. On Sept. 10 ,he arrived at the sourcos of the Kagera, at the foot of the precipitous and wooded hills which form the watershed between the basins of the Rullzl and Kagera. This mountain chain is known to the natives by the name of tho “Mountains of the Moon,” and is hold in peculiar reverence by them. Here Dr. Baumann maintains the real source of the Nile to be, for if “it bo acknowledged that the Kagera is the chief feeder of the Victoria Nyanza, it follows that the headwaters of tho Nile can be none other than the Kagera itself in the Mountains of the Moon in Urundi, within the boundaries of the German East Africa.* —New York Post.