Identifier: africa00johnrich (find matches)
Title: Africa
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel Africa -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Edward Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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extremely flat, sandy,muddy, and overgrown with reeds. Like the Chad on the border of the Sahara, theXgami, correspondingly placed on the edge of the Kalahari,is subject to great annual changes, and like its northerncounterpart is also believed to have undergone veryextensive alteration and reduction within the past fewcenturies, as the numerous large salt-pans and depressionslying eastward of it testify. The Tioge river, feeding itfrom the more favoured country in the north-west of itsbasin, corresponds to the Shari, and brings a flood of waterdown to it in June, Julv, and August, filling out the lake LAKE NGAMI 443 with perfectly fresh water, and causing it to overfloweastward to the salt-pans, by the channel named theZouga. In other months of the year it is graduallyreduced in area, its overflow ceases, and its low watersbecome brackish. It is rich in fish however, great shoalsof which come down with the annual access of watersfrom the Tioge, to the lake and the Zouga. The natives
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MAKATO S VILLAGE, NEAR LAKE NGAMI. navigate the lake in primitive canoes hollowed out of thetrunks of single trees. From the parallel of Lake Ngami both land and peoplestretching northwards assume quite a different appearance.Instead of an elevated, sandy, and waterless upland, weenter a vast basin encircled by high ranges, and with asuperabundance of water. The Ngami itself mails onlythe southern border of this great plain, which extends along way to the north, is crossed by a network of streamsflowing from the higher lands on the north and north-west 444 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. Northward, also, the landscape becomes more picturesque,the banks of the rivers rise to a greater height, and arecovered with a luxuriant growth of palms, mimosas, andsycamores. The animal kingdom on the shores of the lake andalong the banks of the streams is as rich as it is varied,including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, buffalo,giraffe, and several species of antelope, while the waters

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