The Albert N'yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources, Band 2Macmillan, 1867 - 384 Seiten |
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Africa Albert lake ammunition angarep appeared arrived Asua Atāda attack Bacheeta bank beads BLACK RHINOCEROS boatmen boats boy Saat camp canoe captured carried cattle CHAP chief Chopi cliffs crowd dead Debono's deserted distance Eddrees elephants enemy feet fever fire flag following morning Foweera Fowooka Gondokoro guns headman heard high grass hippopotami hour Ibrahim immediately island ivory journey jungle Kalloé Kamrasi Kamrasi's country Karuma Falls Khartoum killed king Kisoona Kookoo Lira M'Gambi M'rooli M'was Madi Magungo Mahommed maroua miles mountains N'yanza night Obbo ordered oxen party passed path plantains porters present procure rain razzia received reeds replied Richarn rifle Rionga river rocks route rushed savage sent Shooa shore shot side slaves Somerset Speke Speke and Grant spot started stream supply told tree tribes Turks tusks Uganda Unyoro vakeel Victoria Nile village Wat-el-Mek Werdella White Nile wife women yards
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Seite 200 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't ? Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Seite 200 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf : Witches...
Seite 89 - 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 on the west, at fifty or sixty miles...
Seite 97 - It was with extreme emotion that I enjoyed this glorious scene. My wife, who had followed me so devotedly, stood by my side pale and exhausted — a wreck upon the shores of the great Albert lake that we had so long striven to reach. No European foot had ever trod upon its sand, nor had the eyes of a white man ever scanned its vast expanse of water.
Seite 88 - In my nightly dreams during that arduous voyage I had always failed, but after so much hard work and perseverance the cup was at my very lips, and I was to drink at the mysterious fountain before another sun should set — at that great reservoir of Nature that ever since creation had baffled all discovery. ' I had hoped, and prayed, and striven through all kinds of difficulties, in sickness, starvation, and fatigue, to reach that hidden source; and when it had appeared impossible, we had both determined...
Seite 83 - I sat by her side in a miserable hut, with the feeble lamp nickering while she lay as in death. She had never moved a muscle since she fell. My people slept. I was alone, and no sound broke the stillness of the night. The ears ached at the utter silence, till the sudden wild cry of a hyena made me shudder as the horrible thought rushed through my brain, that, should she be buried in this lonely spot, the hyena would .. . disturb her rest. The morning was not far distant; it was past four o'clock....
Seite 84 - For seven nights I had not slept, and although as weak as a reed, I had marched by the side of her litter. Nature could resist no longer. We reached a village one evening ; she had been in violent convulsions successively — it was all but over. I laid her down on her litter within a hut ; covered her with a Scotch plaid ; and I fell upon my mat insensible, worn out with sorrow and fatigue.
Seite 5 - I immediately saw the drift of the cunning old Katchiba ; he wanted professional advice. I replied that he must know all about it, as he was a regular rain-maker. ' Of course I do,' he answered ; ' but I want to know what you think of it.' ' Well,' I said, ' I don't think we shall have any steady rain, but I think we may have a heavy shower in about four days' (I said this, as I had observed fleecy clouds gathering daily in the afternoon). ' Just my opinion,
Seite 90 - I was about 1,500 feet above the lake, and I looked down from the steep granite cliff upon those welcome waters — upon that vast reservoir which nourished Egypt and brought fertility where all was wilderness — upon that great source so long hidden from mankind; that source of bounty and of blessings to millions of human beings ; and as one of the greatest objects in nature, I determined to honor it with a great name.
Seite 103 - Our first day's voyage was very delightful. The lake was calm, the sky cloudy, and the scenery most lovely. At times the mountains on the west coast were not discernible, and the lake appeared of indefinite width. We coasted within a hundred yards of the east shore. Sometimes we passed flats of sand and bush of, perhaps, a mile in width, from the water to the base of the mountain ; at other times we passed directly underneath stupendous heights of about 1,500 feet, which ascended abruptly from the...