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 .. . s in pitch darkness, and watched over me until the morning. Atdaybreak I was too weak to stand, and we >vere both carried down tothe canoes, and, crawling helplessly within our grass awning, we lay downlike logs while the canoes continued their voyage. Many of our menwere also suffering from fever. The malaiia of the dense masses of float-ing vegetation was most poisonous; and, upon look
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 .. . s in pitch darkness, and watched over me until the morning. Atdaybreak I was too weak to stand, and we >vere both carried down tothe canoes, and, crawling helplessly within our grass awning, we lay downlike logs while the canoes continued their voyage. Many of our menwere also suffering from fever. The malaiia of the dense masses of float-ing vegetation was most poisonous; and, upon looking back to thecanoe that followed our wake, I observed all my men sitting crouchedtogether sick and dispirited, looking like departed spirits being ferriedacross the melancholy Styx. The river now contracted rapidly to about two hundred and fifty yardsin width about ten miles from Magungo. We had left the vast flats ofrush banks, and entered a channel between high ground, forming steepforest-covered hills, about 200 feet on either side, north and south : never-theless there was no perceptible stream, although there was no doubtthat we were actually in the channel of a river. The water was clear and. MURCHISON FALLS—THE NIAGARA OF AFRICA. t4S3) 484 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. exceedingly deep. In the evening we halted, and slept on a mud bankclose to the water. The grass in the forest was very high and rank : thuswe were glad to find an open space for a bivouac, although a nest ofmosquitoes and malaria. Off in tlie Early Morning^. On waking the next morning, I observed that a thick fog covered thesurface of the river; and as I lay upon my back, I amused myself beforeI woke my men by watching the fog slowly lifting from the river. Whilethus employed I was struck by the fact, that the little green water-plants,like floating cabbages, were certainly, although very slowly, moving tothe west. I immediately jumped up and watched them most attentively;there was no doubt about it; they w
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