Central afrika. Lake njasa

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In the beginning of 1861 Livingstone has made attempt to reach lake Njasa from east coast of Africa. It was going to float on the river Rovuma about which heard, that it ' infinitely surpasses Zambezi absence of a bar [shallow] in a mouth, is deeper also beauty of adjoining areas '. However, after Livingstone has risen on the river on some distance, it has been compelled to refuse attempt to reach to lake it by. Livingstone has returned to Zambezi, again has visited lake Njasa, investigated and has plotted a considerable part of its western coast. After that it has gone down across Zambezi and has sailed to Zanzibar and Bombay.

Expedition was not absolutely successful, and though the big and valuable geographical work has been done, a number of the additional data, concerning already known areas, instead of opening new was its result. Difficulties of penetration into depth of Africa from coast were great, and Livingstone perfectly realised them.

' Some parts of the African continent, he-wrote, - remind the turned plate. This part [that is] under the form (if at all it is possible to speak about the form) most of all reminds a lake Njasa vicinity a wide-brimmed hat with a little bit trampled down crown. The height of a brim in some places is considerable enough, in others as, for example, in the Aunt and on a box of falls of Murchison it [is very small]. Those pieces of the African rivers that are on a brim, are convenient for navigation, however there where they go down from higher places, their current interrupts falls and thresholds. The low belt differs very non-uniform structure. Sometimes it goes down otlogo, in the manner of edge of the turned plate, in other cases at first there is a high mountain ridge at the sea, behind it area of fall and, at last, the central plateau. The width of a low belt reaches in some places 300 miles, and same the length of navigable pieces of the rivers is limited, considering from the sea '. .