Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla (1900) (14762428871)

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Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, Charles H
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Hurst
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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ch are covered with fine grass, softcloudy acacias, and festoons of lilac convolvuli. On the 28th,they reached Ripon Falls, after a long march over rough hills,and through extensive village plantations lately devasted byelephants. But they were well rewarded, for the falls werethe most interesting sight that Speke had yet seen in Africa.Everybody, he says, ran to see them at once, though themarch had been long and fatiguing, and even my sketch-bookwas called into play. Though beautiful, the scene was notexactly what I expected; for the broad surface of the lake wasshut out from view by a spur of hill, and the falls, about 12feet deep, and 400 to 500 feet broad, were broken by rocks.Still it was a sight that attracted one to it for hours—the roarof the waters, the thousands of passenger-fish, leaping at thefalls with all their might, the Wasoga and Waganda fishermencoming out in boats and taking post on all the rocks, with rodand hook, hippopotami and crocodiles lying sleepily on the
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SPEKE AND GRANT. 287 water, the ferry at work above the falls, and cattle driven downto drink at the margin of the lake, made, in all, with the prettynature of the country—small hills, grassy-topped, with trees inthe folds, and gardens on the lower slopes—as interesting apicture as one could wish to see. The expedition, he adds, had now performed its func-tions. I saw that Old Father Nile without any doubt rises inthe Victoria NYanza, and, as I had foretold, that lake is thegreat source of the holy river which cradled the first expounderof our religious belief. I mourned, however, when I thoughthow much time I had lost by the delays in the journey whichhad deprived me of the pleasure of going to look at tne north-east corner of the NYanza to see what connection there was,by a strait frequently spoken of, between it and the other lakewhere the Waganda went to get their salt, and from which an-other river flowed to the north, making i Usoga an island/But I felt I ought to be content