Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — Africa's Only Active Volcano. [ARTICLE]

Africa's Only Active Volcano.

Philadelphia Record. The most interesting as well as the most important discovery made by Lieut. Count von Goetzen, the German explorer who has only recently achieved the thirteenth trip across Africa, has probably been the finding in Ruanda of the fire mountain, Kirunga. This is the only active volcanoever found on the Dark Don - tinent, and the sole survivor of the [ong line of flaming and smoking praters which once lay with their fiery caldrons "both sides of Victoria Nyanza far to the nort h. Kirfinga rises above the plain to a heigh t )f nearly 11,120 feet. The crater is ilmost a mile in diameter and its [vail is nearly circular. At the foot )f this great volcano Von Goetzen liscovered extensive Lake Kiru, of which Stanley heard vague reports )n his journey. It proves to be halfway between lakes Tanganyika and Albert Edwardj and it sends its waters, nearly as large as Lake Al-, Sert, through the Rusisi river to Tangauyiki. Thus, the last link in Ihe chain of the sources of the Nile, irst sought by Livingstone, has been OUnd. ——- - . :