. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. d at 6000. On theopposite side was another large community, w-hose inhabi-tants manned every rock to gaze at us in perfect security, 1877.] PIKE, STANLEY FALLS. 195 for, since they could not hurt us, wc certainly entertained nodesigns against them. The Livingstone from the right hank across the i,sland tothe left bank is about 1300 yards broad, of which width 40yards is occupied by the right branch, 7G0 yards by theisland of the Wenya, 500
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. d at 6000. On theopposite side was another large community, w-hose inhabi-tants manned every rock to gaze at us in perfect security, 1877.] PIKE, STANLEY FALLS. 195 for, since they could not hurt us, wc certainly entertained nodesigns against them. The Livingstone from the right hank across the i,sland tothe left bank is about 1300 yards broad, of which width 40yards is occupied by the right branch, 7G0 yards by theisland of the Wenya, 500 yards by the great river. Con-tracted to this narrow space, between the rocky and per-pendicular bluffs of the island and the steep banks opposite,the uproar, as may be imagined, is very great. As the calmriver, which is 1300 yards wide one mile above the falls,becomes narrowed, the current quickens, and rushes withresistless speed for a few hundred yards, and then falls about10 feet into a boiling and tumultuous gulf, wherein are linesof brown waves G feet high leaping with terrific Iwunds, andhurling themselves against each other in dreadful riKK, STANLEY FALLS. Until I realized the extent of the volume that was hereprecipitated, I could hardly believe that it was indeed a vastriver that was passing before me through this narrowedchannel. I have seen many waterfalls during my travels invarious parts of the world, but here was a stupendous riverflung in full volume over a waterfall only 500 yards river at the last cataract of the Stanley Falls does notmerely fall: it is precipitated downwards. The Ripon Fallsat the Victoria Lake outlet, compared to this swift descentand furious ou-rush, were languid. The Victoria Nile, as itswept down the steep declivity of its bed towards Unyoro, isvery pretty, picturesque, even a sufficiently exciting scene ;but the Livingstone, with over ten times rhe volume of theVictoria Nile, though only occupying the same breadth ofbe
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