. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . out as if to show us itslovely shades of tender green. Birds, so long estrangedfrom us, sailed and soared through the lucent atmosphere ;antelopes and elands stood on a grassy eminence gazingand wondering, and then bounded upward and haltedsnorting their surprise, to which our own was equal;buffaloes lifted their heads in amazement at the intruderson their silent domain, heaved their bulky forms, andtrooped away to a safer distance. A hundred squaremiles of glorious country opened to our view—apparentlydes
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . out as if to show us itslovely shades of tender green. Birds, so long estrangedfrom us, sailed and soared through the lucent atmosphere ;antelopes and elands stood on a grassy eminence gazingand wondering, and then bounded upward and haltedsnorting their surprise, to which our own was equal;buffaloes lifted their heads in amazement at the intruderson their silent domain, heaved their bulky forms, andtrooped away to a safer distance. A hundred squaremiles of glorious country opened to our view—apparentlydeserted—for we had not as yet been able to search outthe fine details of it. Leagues upon leagues of brightgreen pasture land undulated in gentle waves, intersectedby narrow winding lines of umbrageous trees that filledthe hollows, scores of gentle hills studded with darkclumps of thicket, graced here and there by a statelytree, lorded it over level breadths of pasture and softlysloping champaigns ; and far away to the east rose somefrowning ranges of mountains beyond which we were. WE REACH THE GBASS LAND. 295 certain slept in its deep gulf the blue Albert. Until forced a halt, the caravan had sped on the ^^*^ *double-quick—for this was also a pleasure that had been ^^^^long deferred. Then we halted on the crest of a commanding hill todrink the beauty of a scene to which we knew norival, which had been the subject of our thoughts anddreams for months, and now we were made glad ac-cording to the days wherein we had been afflicted andthe period wherein we had seen evil. Every face gloatedover the beauty of the landscape and reflected the secretpleasure of the heart. The men were radiant with thefulfilment of dear desires. Distrust and sullenness werenow utterly banished. We were like men out of duranceand the dungeon free and unfettered, having exchangedfoulness and damp for sweetness and purity, darknessand gloom for divine light and wholesome air. Ourey
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