 | 1902 - 532 pages
...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 on... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 534 pages
...of a lofty range of cliffs. FIRST SIGHT OF THE ALBERT N'YANZA. The glory of our prize suddenly burst upon me. There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay, far beneath, the grand expanse of the water — a boundless sea-horizon on the south and southwest, glittering in the noonday sun ; and... | |
 | Henri Veslot - 1905 - 400 pages
...myself. JAMES BRUCE. (Traoelf.) First sight of the Albert Nyanza. The glory of our prize suddenly burst upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far...south-west, glittering in the noonday sun; and on the west, atliftyor sixty miles' distance, (i) blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake' to a height of... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1907 - 720 pages
...March I4th, 1864, and was the first European to look upon its waters. He says : " The glory " of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of...glittering in " the noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles' "distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a " height of about... | |
 | Sara Mills - 2005 - 218 pages
...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...glittering in the noonday sun; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1867 - 544 pages
...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...glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
 | Reina Lewis, Sara Mills - 2003 - 772 pages
...summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far neath the grand expanse of water - a boundless sea horizon...glittering in the noonday sun; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
 | Thomas Price, William Hendry Stowell, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1866 - 610 pages
...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 noon-day sun ; and... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1873 - 554 pages
...climbed a hill from which the travellers were told they might see the hoped-for lake, he says : — " 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 on the west, at fifty... | |
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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... 
