Title: Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie; a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in eastern equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888
Identifier: discoveryoflakes02hhne (find matches)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Höhnel, Ludwig, Ritter von, 1857-1942; Teleki, Samuel, Székigrof, 1845-1916; Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens, "Mrs. A. E. Bell,"
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Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A LIFE-SAYING SLEEP 103 stiff blades, with points as sharp as needles, and was on this account avoided by the men, whilst the cattle scarcely cared to eat it. The spot was so strewn with rubbish that the men had to clear it before we could pitch our tents, and it was pretty evident that the raiding party mentioned above had been here before us. They had set up little crescents of stones, behind each of which two or three men could get shelter and protec-
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A HARD RESTING-PLACE FOR THE NIGHT. tion from the dust-laden east wind ; a capital plan in a sandy district such as this. Looking up the valley at the outlet of which we were camped, we obtained a nearer view of the surrounding mountain district, which presented a terrible chaos of yawning chasms and ravines, with perpendicular brownish-black precipices, the general character and trend of which led us to suppose them to be a continuation of the same fissure as that in which our progress had been arrested during our march along the western

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