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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We Passed Close To Its Forbidding Walls,
Thankful For The Calm Of The Tanganika.
Near Kabogo are some very
fine mvule trees, well adapted for canoe building, and there are no
loud-mouthed natives about to haggle for the privilege of cutting
them.
Along the water's edge, and about three feet above it, was observed
very clearly on the smooth face of the rocky slopes of Kabogo
the high-water mark of the lake. This went to show that the
Tanganika, during the rainy season, rises about three feet above
its dry season level, and that, during the latter season,
evaporation reduces it to its normal level. The number of rivers
which we passed on this journey enabled me to observe whether, as
I was told, there was any current setting north. It was apparent
to me that, while the south-west, south, or south-east winds blew,
the brown flood of the rivers swept north; but it happened that,
while passing, once or twice, the mouths of rivers, after a puff
from the north-west and north, that the muddied waters were seen
southward of the mouths; from which I conclude that there is no
current in the Tanganika except such as is caused by the fickle
wind.
Finding a snug nook of a bay at a place called Sigunga, we put in
for lunch. An island at the mouth of the bay suggested to our
minds that this was a beautiful spot for a mission station; the
grandly sloping hills in the background, with an undulating shelf
of land well-wooded between them and the bay, added to the
attractions of such a spot.
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