3-043-743 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingstone's explorations, 1872. 'The explorations in which Dr. Livingstone has been engaged since March, 1866, when he started from Zanzibar for the interior of Africa, may be partly understood by the help of our Sketch Map. It shows, in general outline, what is now known of the lakes and rivers of that continent, in its middle portion, between latitude 10 deg. north and 20 deg. south of the Equator, and especially from longitude 20 deg. east to 40 deg. east, on the Indian Ocean, comprising more than two thirds of the whole breadth of Africa, from the region of the Niger, or Guinea, in the north-west, to that of the Lower Zambesi, or Mozambique, in the south-east - that is, from the upper left-hand corner to the bottom right-hand corner of the Engraving'. [Showing: 'Soudan or Nigritia; Independent Pagan Tribes; Unexplored [territory]; Lake Victoria N'Yanza; Lake Albert N'Yanza; Abyssinia; White Nile; Congo; Angola; Indian Ocean; South Atlantic Ocean; Makololo; Cazembe; Victoria Falls; Mouths of the Zambesi River; Benguela; Lake Lincoln; Lake Moero; Lake Bangweolo; Lake Kamelondo; Ujiji; Speke's Nile; the Equator; Bight of Biafra'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.