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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A headstream of the Congo River, rising in southeast Democratic Republic of the Congo and flowing about 1,800 km (1,100 mi) north to the Boyoma (formerly Stanley) Falls, a series of seven cataracts southeast of Kisangani.

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  • On going out of this Lake it is known by the name Lualaba, as it flows N.W. in Rua to form another Lake with many islands called

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

  • On going out of this Lake it is known by the name Lualaba, as it flows N.W. in Rua to form another Lake with many islands called

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843

  • By the natives it is called the Lualaba, but the Doctor, in order to distinguish it from other rivers of the same name, has given it the name of

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • At the end of June, 1869, Livingstone quitted Ujiji and crossed over to Uguhha, on the western shore, for his last and greatest series of explorations; the result of which was the further discovery of a lake of considerable magnitude connected with Moero by the large river called the Lualaba, and which was a continuation of the chain of lakes he had previously discovered.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • When recovered, he set off in a northerly direction, and after several days came to a broad lacustrine river, called the Lualaba, flowing northward and westward, and in some places southward, in a most confusing way.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • Under these limitations I agree with Dr. Behm: — “Taking everything into consideration, in the present state of our knowledge, there is the strongest probability that the Lualaba is the head stream of the Congo, and the absolute certainty that it has no connection with the Nile or any other river (system) of the northern hemisphere.”

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Here begins the historic Lualaba, which is the initial link in the almost endless chain of the Congo River.

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • Dr. Livingstone was strongly inclined to believe that this connection existed; but toward the close of his life he had more doubts of it, although it was left to others to establish conclusively that the Lualaba was the Congo, and sent no branch to the Nile.

    The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

  • We were now in the large bend of the Lualaba, which is here much larger than at Mpweto's, near Moero Lake.

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

  • Under these limitations I agree with Dr. Behm: -- "Taking everything into consideration, in the present state of our knowledge, there is the strongest probability that the Lualaba is the head stream of the Congo, and the absolute certainty that it has no connection with the Nile or any other river (system) of the northern hemisphere."

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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