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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It Was The Most Natural Thing In The World That
I Should Feel Deepest Admiration For These Successive Pictures
Of
Quiet scenic beauty, but the Doctor had quite as much to say
about them as I had myself, though, as
One might imagine, satiated
with pictures of this kind far more beautiful - far more wonderful -
he should long ago have expended all his powers of admiring scenes
in nature.
From Bagamoyo to Ujiji I had seen nothing to compare to them - none
of these fishing settlements under the shade of a grove of palms
and plantains, banians and mimosa, with cassava gardens to the
right and left of palmy forests, and patches of luxuriant grain
looking down upon a quiet bay, whose calm waters at the early morn
reflected the beauties of the hills which sheltered them from the
rough and boisterous tempests that so often blew without.
The fishermen evidently think themselves comfortably situated.
The lake affords them all the fish they require, more than enough
to eat, and the industrious a great deal to sell. The steep slopes
of the hills, cultivated by the housewives, contribute plenty of
grain, such as dourra and Indian corn, besides cassava, ground-nuts
or peanuts, and sweet potatoes. The palm trees afford oil, and the
plantains an abundance of delicious fruit. The ravines and deep
gullies supply them with the tall shapely trees from which they
cut out their canoes. Nature has supplied them bountifully with
all that a man's heart or stomach can desire.
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