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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As The Guides Proceeded Across, The Men Stole After
Them With Cautious Footsteps.
As they arrived near the centre
we began to see this unstable grassy bridge, so curiously provided
by nature for us, move up and down in heavy languid undulations,
like the swell of the sea after a storm.
Where the two asses of
the Expedition moved, the grassy waves rose a foot high; but suddenly
one unfortunate animal plunged his feet through, and as he was
unable to rise, he soon made a deep hollow, which was rapidly filling
with water. With the aid of ten men, however, we were enabled to
lift him bodily up and land him on a firmer part, and guiding them
both across rapidly, the entire caravan crossed without accident.
On arriving at the other side, we struck off to the north, and
found ourselves in a delightful country, in every way suitable
for agriculturists. Great rocks rose here and there, but in their
fissures rose stately trees, under whose umbrage nestled the
villages of the people. We found the various village elders greedy
for cloth, but the presence of the younger son of Nzogera's men
restrained their propensity for extortion. Goats and sheep were
remarkably cheap, and in good condition; and, consequently, to
celebrate our arrival near the Malagarazi, a flock of eight goats
was slaughtered, and distributed to the men.
November 1st. - Striking north-west, after leaving our camp, and
descending the slope of a mountain, we soon beheld the anxiously
looked-for Malagarazi, a narrow but deep stream, flowing through
a valley pent in by lofty mountains.
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