They Regretted With Myself
That Snay Was So Hot-Headed; For They Themselves Thought A Treaty
Of Peace Would Have Been The Best Thing For Them, For They Were
More Than Half-Ruined Already, And Saw No Hope For The Future.
Then, turning to geography, I told Abdulla all I had written and
lectured in England concerning his stories about navigators on
the N'yanza, which I explained must be the Nile, and wished to
know if I should alter it in any way:
But he said, "Do not; you
may depend it will all turn out right;" to which Musa added, all
the people in the north told him that when the N'yanza rose, the
stream rushed with such violence it tore up islands and floated
them away.
I was puzzled at this announcement, not then knowing that both
the lake and the Nile, as well as all ponds, were called N'yanza:
but we shall see afterwards that he was right; and it was in
consequence of this confusion in the treatment of distinctly
different geographical features under one common name by these
people, that in my former journey I could not determine where the
lake had ended and the Nile began. Abdulla again - he had done so
on the former journey - spoke to me of a wonderful mountain to the
northward of Karague, so high and steep no one could ascend it.
It was, he said, seldom visible, being up in the clouds, where
white matter, snow or hail, often fell.
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