. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. that the Wy-yanzi intended toabandon us, we could find no reasonable cause to doubt them,and therefore proceeded without them until near camped in the midst of a dense jungly forest. Aboutan hour after, the camjj was alarmed by the shrieks of a boy,who was about to he attacked by a python, which vanishedin the woods when the people rushed to the rescue. The 1877.] TEA-COLOURED RIVERS. 251 boy said he Imd liniled it at first, imag
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. that the Wy-yanzi intended toabandon us, we could find no reasonable cause to doubt them,and therefore proceeded without them until near camped in the midst of a dense jungly forest. Aboutan hour after, the camjj was alarmed by the shrieks of a boy,who was about to he attacked by a python, which vanishedin the woods when the people rushed to the rescue. The 1877.] TEA-COLOURED RIVERS. 251 boy said he Imd liniled it at first, imagining it to be one ofhis friends. In half an liour the j)ython, or another one, wasdiscovered in a different part of the camp, about to embracea woman in its folds; but this time, after tremendous excite-ment, the monster was despatched. It measured only 13feet 6 inches in length, and ] 5 inches round the thickest the body. Mar. 9.—At early dawn we continued our journey alongthe right bank, and about 7 discovered a rapid riverabout two hundred and fifty yards wide, having two mouths,to which I have given the name of Lawson River, after. SON OF THE K1N3 OF CHUMBIEI. ]\Ir. Edward Levy Lawson. The water was of a very lightcolour. The water of the Ikelemba river, which enters the Living-stone above Ikengo in about 12 south latitude, did notcommingle with that of its great recipient until both hadflowed side by side in the same bed for about 130 miles, ornear Bolobo. Its strong-tea-coloured water had now quitechanged the complexion of the Livingstone; for, while aboveBolobo it had a clear whitey-grey colour, it was now of adeep brown. The other tea-coloured rivers, such as theRuiki, Kasuku, and Black, above the Stanley Falls, had soonbecome absorbed by the waters of the Livingstone. 252 THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. [1877. Below the last affluent the Livingstone narrowed to1500 yards, and Howed with a perceptibly quickened currentthrough the deep chasm in the table-lanc
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