. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . avail ourselves of the deepwater, and therefore were saved from the tedium of themonotony. Seated in an easy-chair scarcely 40 feet from theshore, every revolution of the propeller caused us to seenew features of foliage, bank, trees, shrubs, plants, budsand blossoms. We might be indifferent to, or ignorantof the character and virtues of the several plants andvaried vegetation we saw, we might have no interest in 100 IN DARKEST AFRICA. 1. UpperCongo any portion of the sliore, but we certainly forg
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . avail ourselves of the deepwater, and therefore were saved from the tedium of themonotony. Seated in an easy-chair scarcely 40 feet from theshore, every revolution of the propeller caused us to seenew features of foliage, bank, trees, shrubs, plants, budsand blossoms. We might be indifferent to, or ignorantof the character and virtues of the several plants andvaried vegetation we saw, we might have no interest in 100 IN DARKEST AFRICA. 1. UpperCongo any portion of the sliore, but we certainly forgot thelapse of time while observing the outward forms, andwere often kindled into livelier interest whenever aninhabitant of the air or of the water appeared in thefield of vision. These delightful views of perfectlycalm waters, and vivid green forests with every sprigand leaf still as death, and almost unbroken front lineof thick leafy bush sprinkled with butterflies and mothsand insects, and wide rivers of shining water, will remainlonger in our minds than the stormy aspects which. STANLEY POOL disturbed the exquisite repose of nature almost everyafternoon. From the middle of March to the middle of Maywas the rainy season, and daily, soon after 2 ,the sky betokened the approach of a lowering tempest;the sun was hidden by the dark portents of storms, andsoon after the thunderbolts rent the gloom, lightningblazed through it, the rain poured with tropical copious-ness, and general misery prevailed and the darkness ofthe night followed. Nature and time were at their best for us. The riverwas neither too high nor too low. Were it the former UPPER CONGO SCENERY. 101 we should have had the difficulty of finding uninundated ; had it been the latter we should have been ^^ ^•tediously delayed by the shallows. We were permitted qH^ steer generally about 40 yards from the left bank,and to enjoy without interruption over 1000 miles ofchanging hues and forms of vegetab
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