class="apple-converted-space"> Around the beginning of
the eighteenth century
, the rumors about the existence of
the lake were many and sufficiently consistent to the point that
cartographers
as
Guillaume
de l'Isle
andJean Baptiste
d'Anville Bourguinon
began to
picture the maps.In
1856
,
David
Livingstone
visited
Mozambique
, and encountered
Tete
Spanish
Candido Cardosa
, who said to have arrived on the
shores of the mysterious lake (in the area that today is called "Peninsula
Nankumba
").
On the basis of the indications of
Cardosa, Livingstone first tried to trace the Zambezi
and then, to avoid the dangerous
rapids
Kebabrasa
, decided instead to go up the river
Shire
, coming to the lake in
1859
