. DB. LIVINGSTONES MOSQUITO AN OLD SERVANT DESTROYED. CROSSING THE LUAPULA. 763 The report that the men give of this mighty river makes usinstinctively bend our eyes on the dark burden laid in thecanoe. How ardently would he have scanned it whose bodythus passes across these waters, and whose spirit, in its lasthours sojourn in this world, wandered in thought and imagina-tion to its stream ! It would seem that the Luapula at this point is double thewidth of the Zambesi at Shupanga. This gives a breadth offully four miles. A
. DB. LIVINGSTONES MOSQUITO AN OLD SERVANT DESTROYED. CROSSING THE LUAPULA. 763 The report that the men give of this mighty river makes usinstinctively bend our eyes on the dark burden laid in thecanoe. How ardently would he have scanned it whose bodythus passes across these waters, and whose spirit, in its lasthours sojourn in this world, wandered in thought and imagina-tion to its stream ! It would seem that the Luapula at this point is double thewidth of the Zambesi at Shupanga. This gives a breadth offully four miles. A man could not be seen on the oppositebank : trees looked small: a gun could be heard, but no shout-ing would ever reach a person across the river—such is thedescription given by men who were well able to compare theLuapula with the Zambesi. Taking to the canoes, they wereable to use the mphondo, or punting pole, for a distancethrough reeds, then came clear deep water for some four hun-dred yards, again a broad reedy expanse, followed by anotherdeep part, succeeded in turn by another current
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