Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . , an expanse of the light-est and softest blue, in breadth varying fromthirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by thecrisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowyfoam. The back-ground in front is a high andbroken wall of steel-colored mountain, hereflecked and capped with pearly mist, there stand-ing sharply penciled against the azure air; itsyaAvning chasms, marked by a deeper plum-color,fall towards dwarf hills of mound-like propor-tions, which apparently dip their feet in thewave. To the south, and opposite the long, lowpoint
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . , an expanse of the light-est and softest blue, in breadth varying fromthirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by thecrisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowyfoam. The back-ground in front is a high andbroken wall of steel-colored mountain, hereflecked and capped with pearly mist, there stand-ing sharply penciled against the azure air; itsyaAvning chasms, marked by a deeper plum-color,fall towards dwarf hills of mound-like propor-tions, which apparently dip their feet in thewave. To the south, and opposite the long, lowpoint, behind which the Malagarazi River dis-charges the red loam suspended in its violentstream, lie the bluflf headlands and capes ofUguhha, and, as the eye dilates, it falls upon acluster of outlying islets, speckling a sea-hori-zon. Villages, cultivated lands, the frequentcanoes of the fishermen on the waters, and on anearer approach the murmurs of the waves break^ing upon the shore, give a something of variety,of movement, of life to the landscape, which. G86. like all the fairest prospects in these regions,wants but a little of the neatness and finish ofart—mosks and kiosks, palaces and villas, gar-dens and orchards—contrasting with the profuselavishness and magnificence of nature, and diver-sifying the unbroken coup doiil of excessivevegetation, to rival, if not to excel, the most ad-mired scenery of the classic regions. The riantshores of this vast crevasse appeared doubly beau-tiful to me after the silent and spectral mangrove-creeks on the East-African sea-board, and themelancholy, monotonous experience of desertand jungle scenery, tawny rock and sun-parchedplain, or rank herbage and flats of black it was a revel for soul and sight! For-getting toils, dangers, and the doubtfulness ofreturn, I felt willing to endure double what Ihad endured; and all the party seemed to joinwith me in joy. On the next day they paddled over the lake—the first white men who ha
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