Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . sresolutely held to it. Setting out from the capital, they de-termined to separate. Grant going forward with the mainbody of the caravan to King Kamrasis capital, while Spekeskirted the borders of the lake until he should come upon the BY BURTON, SPEKE AND GRANT. 191 Nile, flowing out of it. This latter intention was realized twodays after their separation, July 19, 1862. Here at last I stood on the brink of the Nile! Most beau-tiful w^as the scene, nothing
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . sresolutely held to it. Setting out from the capital, they de-termined to separate. Grant going forward with the mainbody of the caravan to King Kamrasis capital, while Spekeskirted the borders of the lake until he should come upon the BY BURTON, SPEKE AND GRANT. 191 Nile, flowing out of it. This latter intention was realized twodays after their separation, July 19, 1862. Here at last I stood on the brink of the Nile! Most beau-tiful w^as the scene, nothing could surpass it. It was the veryperfection of the effect aimed at in a highly kept park; with amagnificent stream from six hundred to seven hundred yardswide, dotted with islets and rocks, the former occupied byfishermens huts, the latter by sterns and crocodiles basking inthe sufi, flowing between fine high grassy banks, with richtrees and plantains in the back-ground, where herds of thensunnu and the hartebeest could be seen grazing, while thehippopotami were snorting in the water, and florikan andguinea-fowl rising at our A Queen Dragged to Execution. They marched along the left bank of the Nile, at some littledistance from the river, through a country rich in many formsof vegetable and animal life. They reached the Isamba Rap-ids on the 25th, Ripon Falls on the 28th of the month; butpaused only a short time at either place. Here we have come tothe point where the results,of the expedition may be summedup, in the Avords of its leader: The expedition had now performed its functions. I sawthat old Father Nile without any doubt rises in the VictoriaNyanza, and, as I had foretold, that lake is the great sourceof the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our be-lief. * * * I had seen full half of the lake, and had infor-mation given me of the other half, by means of which I kne\y
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