The Lake Regions of Central AfricaScribner, Armstrong, 1878 - 397 pages |
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Africa appeared Arab merchants Arabs arms arrived Bacheeta Baker Baloch Baraka beads beautiful boats Bombay brought Burton called camp canoes caravan chief cloth coast crossed delay desert distance eastern expedition exploration feet fever fire gave Gondokoro grass ground guns halt head heard hills Ibrahim ivory jemadar journey jungle Kamrasi Karagwe Karuma Karuma Falls Kazeh Khartoum Kidi king Kingani lake land Latooka leave loads Magungo Manua Sera Maula mbugu miles morning mountains Mtesa Muzungu natives night Obbo ordered palace party passed plantains porters procure promised rains reached region river road Rufiji River Rumanika says sent Shooa shore side slaves Snay Speke and Grant stream Sultan supplies Suwarora Tanganyika tion travellers trees tribes Turks Uganda Ugogo Ujiji Unyamwezi Unyanyembe Unyoro Usui Uvira valley Victoria Nyanza village Wagogo Wanyamwezi White Nile yards Zanzibar Zungomero
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Page 255 - N'yanza, and, as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief. I mourned, however, when I thought how much I had lost by the delays in the journey having deprived me of the pleasure of going to look at the north-east corner of the N'yanza to see what connection there...
Page 206 - Avith no small surprise at the way he received me, as well as with the extraordinary dimensions, yet pleasing beauty, of the immoderately fat fair one his wife. She could not rise; and so large were her arms that, between the joints, the flesh hung down like large, loose-stuffed puddings.
Page 253 - Here at last I stood on the brink of the Nile ; most beautiful was the scene, nothing could surpass it ! It was the very perfection of the kind of effect aimed at in a highly kept park ; with a magnificent stream from...
Page 318 - Existence after death ! How can that be ? Can a dead man get out of his grave unless we dig him out ? ' ' Do you think man is like a beast, that dies and is ended ? ' Commoro. — 'Certainly; an ox is stronger than a man; but he dies, and his bones last longer; they arc bigger. A man's Iwnes break quickly — he is weak.
Page 232 - Wakungu, all habited in skins, mostly cow-skins ; some few of whom had, in addition, leopard-cat skins girt round the waist, the sign of royal blood. Here I was desired to halt and sit in the glaring sun ; so I donned my hat, mounted my umbrella, a phenomenon which set them all awondering and laughing, ordered the guard to close ranks, and sat gazing at the novel spectacle.
Page 22 - Dull mangrove, dismal jungle, and monotonous grass, were supplanted by tall solitary trees, among which the lofty tamarind rose conspicuously graceful, and a cardtable-like swamp, cut by a net-work of streams, nullahs, and stagnant pools, gave way to dry healthy slopes, with short steep pitches and gently shelving hills.
Page 362 - The day broke beautifully clear, and having crossed a deep valley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath the grand expanse of water — a boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noonday sun; and in the west, at fifty or sixty miles...
Page 75 - Moon, which is the garden of Central Intertropical Africa, presents an aspect of peaceful rural beauty which soothes the eye like a medicine after the red glare of barren Ugogo, and the dark monotonous verdure of the -western provinces. The inhabitants are comparatively numerous in the villages, which rise at short intervals above their impervious walls of the lustrous green milk-bush, with its coral-shaped arms, variegating the well-hoed plains ; whilst in the pasture-lands frequent herds of manycoloured...
Page 254 - At last, with a good push for it, crossing hills and threading huge grasses, as well as extensive village plantations lately devastated by elephants — they had eaten all that was eatable, and what would not serve for food they had destroyed with their trunks, not one plantain or one hut being left entire — we arrived at the extreme end of the journey, the farthest point ever visited by the expedition on the same parallel of latitude as king Mtesa's palace, and just forty miles east of it. We...