Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition (1890) (14783651442)

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Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ief, Stanley began the circumnavigation of Lake Wind-ermere, March 8; and made several similar excursions fromhis camp on the Kagera. . March 11, Rumanika furnished him with an escort of thirtymen and a guide for his visit to Mtagata Hot Springs, whichthey reached after two days journey. These remarkablesprings are six in number, the temperature varying from onehundred and seven degrees Fahrenheit to one hundred andtwenty-nine and one-half degrees. A sample of the watertaken to London and there analyzed, showed it to be faintlyalkaline, holding sodium carbonate in solution. The nativespraised the waters of the springs so highly that Stanley resolv-ed to test them in his own person; but although he remainedthree days there and drank an enormous quantity of the water,he experienced no good. He intimates that the benefit re-ceived in cutaneous diseases results more from the unusualcleanliness than from any virtue in the water itself. A great deal of information was received from Rumanika
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STANLEY CROSSES THE DARK CONTINENT. 553 concerning the geography of the surrounding country; andhis sub-chiefs added their quota. Rumanikas knowledge(not drawn from personal experience) included a race of peo-ple but two feet high, another with tails, and still anotherwith ears so long that they touched the ground when the manstood upright, and when he lay down, formed a sleeping matand a covering from the cold. Having traced the extreme southern sources of the Nile,from the marshy plains and cultivated uplands where they areborn, down to the mighty reservoir called the Victoria Nyanza,Stanley, on April 7, resumed his **journey in a southerlydirection, and traveled five miles along a ravine, at the bottomof which murmured the infant stream Luhugati. On comingto its source we ascended a steep slope until we stood on thesummit of a grassy ridge at the height of five thousand sixhundred feet by aneroid. Not until we had descended a mileto the valley of Uyagoma did I recognize the importa