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 The Same Scenes Were Witnessed - An Unbroken Series
Of Longitudinal Ridges, Parallel One With Another And With Lake
Tanganika.
Eastward the faces of these ridges present abrupt
scarps and terraces, rising from deep valleys, while the western
declivities have gradual slopes.
These are the peculiar features
of Ukawendi, the eastern watershed of the Tanganika.
In one of these valleys on this day we came across a colony of
reddish-bearded monkeys, whose howls, or bellowing, rang amongst
the cliffs as they discovered the caravan. I was not able to
approach them, for they scrambled up trees and barked their
defiance at me, then bounded to the ground as I still persisted
in advancing; and they would have soon drawn me in pursuit if I
had not suddenly remembered that my absence was halting the
Expedition.
About noon we sighted our Magdala - the grand towering mount whose
upright frowning mass had attracted our eyes, as it lifted itself
from above the plain in all its grandeur, when we were hurrying
along the great ridge of Rusawa towards the "Crocodile" River.
We recognised the old, mystic beauty of the tree-clad plain around
it. Then it was bleached, and a filmy haze covered it lovingly;
now it was vivid greenness. Every vegetable, plant, herb and
tree, had sprung into quick life - the effect of the rains. Rivers
that ran not in those hot summer days now fumed and rushed
impetuously between thick belts of mighty timber, brawling
hoarsely in the glades.
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