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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I Am Now Going To Extract From My Diary Of The March, As, Without
Its Aid, I Deem It Impossible
To relate fully our various
experiences, so as to show them properly as they occurred to us;
and as these
Extracts were written and recorded at the close of
each day, they possess more interest, in my opinion, than a cold
relation of facts, now toned down in memory.
October 31st. Tuesday. - Our road led E.N.E. for a considerable
time after leaving the base of the triangular mountain whereon the
son of Nzogera has established his stronghold, in order to avoid a
deep and impassable portion of marsh, that stood between us and the
direct route to the Malagarazi River. The valley sloped rapidly
to this marsh, which received in its broad bosom the drainage of
three extensive ranges. Soon we turned our faces northwest, and
prepared to cross the marsh; and the guides informed us, as we
halted on its eastern bank, of a terrible catastrophe which
occurred a few yards above where we were preparing to cross.
They told of an Arab and his caravan, consisting of thirty-five
slaves, who had suddenly sunk out of sight, and who were never
more heard of. This marsh, as it appeared to us, presented a
breadth of some hundreds of yards, on which grew a close network
of grass, with much decayed matter mixed up with it. In the
centre of this, and underneath it, ran a broad, deep, and rapid
stream.
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