How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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On The 14th, After A March Of Seven Miles Over Hills Whose
Sandstone And Granite Formation Cropped Visibly Here And
There
above the surface, whose stony and dry aspect seemed reflected
in every bush and plant, and having gained an
Altitude of about
eight hundred feet above the flow of the Mukondokwa, we sighted the
Lake of Ugombo - a grey sheet of water lying directly at the foot
of the hill, from whose summit we gazed at the scene. The view was
neither beautiful nor pretty, but what I should call refreshing;
it afforded a pleasant relief to the eyes fatigued from dwelling on
the bleak country around. Besides, the immediate neighbourhood of
the lake was too tame to call forth any enthusiasm; there were no
grandly swelling mountains, no smiling landscapes - nothing but a
dun-brown peak, about one thousand feet high above the surface of
the lake at its western extremity, from which the lake derived its
name, Ugombo; nothing but a low dun-brown irregular range, running
parallel with its northern shore at the distance of a mile;
nothing but a low plain stretching from its western shore far away
towards the Mpwapwa Mountains and Marenga Mkali, then apparent to
us from our coign of vantage, from which extensive scene of
dun-brownness we were glad to rest our eyes on the quiet grey
water beneath.
Descending from the summit of the range, which bounded the lake
east for about four hundred feet, we travelled along the northern
shore.
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