Bangweulu Sentence Examples

Again, on the map illustrating Livingstone's " Last Journals " the Luapula is shown as issuing from the Bangweulu in the north-west, when an examination of the account of the natives who carried the great explorer's remains to the coast would have shown that it leaves that lake on the south.

Bangweulu occupies the north-west part of a central basin in an extensive plateau, and is about 3700 ft.

The term Bangweulu is sometimes applied to the whole depression, but is properly confined to the area of clear water.

The Luapula, which leaves Bangweulu at its most southern point, is about a mile wide at the outflow, but soon narrows to 300 or so yds.

A sandy track separates Bangweulu from Kampolombo, and a narrow forest-clad tongue of land called Kapata intervenes between the Luapula and Kampolombo.

The flood waters of the Chambezi and other streams, which deposit large quantities of alluvium, are gradually solidifying the swamp, while the Luapula is believed to be, though very slowly, draining Bangweulu.

After visiting Lake Mofwa and the Lualaba, which he believed was the upper part of the Nile, he, on the 18th of July 1868, discovered Lake Bangweulu.

Thus attended, he started on the 15th of August for Lake Bangweulu, proceeding along the east side of Tanganyika.

In January 1873 the party got among the endless spongy jungle on the east of Lake Bangweulu, Livingstone's object being to go round by the south and away west to find the "fountains."

The most remote head-stream of the Congo is the Chambezi, which flows south-west into the marshy Lake Bangweulu.