Identifier: lakeregionsofcen00gedd (find matches)
Title: The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Geddie, John, 1848-1937
Subjects: Rivers -- Africa Africa, Central -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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graphicallysays, like umbrellas in a crowd. At length, thegreat countries of Ugogo and Unyamwezi havingbeen traversed, and the mountain screen that shutsin Tanganyika surmounted, the lake itself comes intosight, with the thatched bouses of Ujiji, the rendez-vous of all the expeditions, scientific, missionary, andtrading, that have ever visited its shores, scatteredalong the margin of its dancing blue waters. The view, by the unanimous testimony of all whohave looked upon it, must be one of exceptionalgrandeur and impressiveness. To the first discover-ers of Tanganyika, Burton and Speke, it seemed therevelation of a new world—a sight to make menhold their breath with a rush of new thoughts, aswhen Bilbao and his men stood silent on a peak inDarien, and gazed on the Pacific. It filled us,says Burton,with admiration, wonder, ami delight.Beyond a short foreground of rugged and precipitoushill-fold, down which (he footpath painfully zigzags, a narrow plot of emerald green shelves gently
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A NEW ASPECT. 121 towards a ribbon of glistening yellow sand, herebordered by sedgy rushes, there clear and cleanly cutby the breaking wavelets. Farther in front stretchesan expanse of the lightest, softest blue, from thirtyto thirty-five miles in breadth, and sprinkled bythe east wind with crescents of snowy foam. It isbounded on the other side by tall and broken walls ofpurple hill, flecked and capped with pearly mist, orstanding sharply pencilled against the azure sky. Tothe south lie high bluff headlands and capes; andas the eye dilates it falls on little outlying islets,speckling a sea horizon. Villages, cultivated lands,the frequent canoes of the fishermen, give a some-thing of life, of variety, of movement to thescenery. Just fifteen years later, Cameron looked down onthe same scene under somewhat less sunny con-ditions. At first, he says, I could hardly realizeit. Lying at the bottom of a steep descent was abright-blue patch about a mile long, then some trees,and beyond them a

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