Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . hundred andsixty days in the forest—one continuous, unbroken, compact grass-land was traversed by us in eight days. The limits of theforest along the edge of the grass-land are well marked. We saw itextending northeasterly, with its curves and bays and capes just like asea-shore. Southwesterly it preserved the same character. North andsouth the forest area extends from Nyangwe to
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . hundred andsixty days in the forest—one continuous, unbroken, compact grass-land was traversed by us in eight days. The limits of theforest along the edge of the grass-land are well marked. We saw itextending northeasterly, with its curves and bays and capes just like asea-shore. Southwesterly it preserved the same character. North andsouth the forest area extends from Nyangwe to the southern borders ofthe Monbuttu; east and west it embraces all from the Congo, at the STANLEY FINDS EMIN PASHA. 747 mouth of the Aruwimi, to about east longitude 29°-40°. How far westbeyond the Congo the forest reaches I do not know. The superficialextent of the tract thus described—totally covered by forest—is twohundred and forty-six thousand square miles. North of the Congo,between Upoto and the Aruwimi, the forest embraces another twentythousand square miles. Between Yambuya and the Nyanza we came across five distinct lan-guages. The last is that which is spoken by the Wanyoro, Wan-. SKIRMISH DRILL OF KAFFIR WARRIORS. yankori, Wanya, Ruanda, Wahha, and people of Karangwe and land slopes gently from the crest of the plateau above the Nyanzadown to the Congo River from an altitude of five thousand five hundredfeet to one thousand four hundred feet above the sea. North and southof our track through the grass-land the face of the land was much brokenby groups of cones or isolated mounts or ridges. North we saw no landhigher than about six thousand feet above the sea, but bearing two hun-dred and fifteen degrees magnetic, at the distance of about fifty milesfrom our camp on the Nyanza, we saw a towering mountain, its summit 7*48 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. covered with snow, and probably seventeen or eighteen thousand feetabove the sea. It is called Ruevenzo
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