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 .. . utes later I cried out, Prepare yourself for a sight of the Nyanza. The men murmured anddoubted, and said, Why does the master continually talk to us in thisway? Nyanza, indeed! Is not this a plain, and can we not see moun-tains at least four days march ahead of us. At p. m. the AlbertNyanza was below them. Now it was my turn to jeer and scoff at thedoubters, but as I was about to ask
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 .. . utes later I cried out, Prepare yourself for a sight of the Nyanza. The men murmured anddoubted, and said, Why does the master continually talk to us in thisway? Nyanza, indeed! Is not this a plain, and can we not see moun-tains at least four days march ahead of us. At p. m. the AlbertNyanza was below them. Now it was my turn to jeer and scoff at thedoubters, but as I was about to ask them what they saw, so many cameto kiss my hands and beg my pardon, that I could not say a was my reward. The mountains, they said, were the mountains ofUnyoro, or rather its lofty plateau wall. Kavali, the objective point ofthe expedition, was six miles from us as the crow flies. STANLEYS THRILLING NARRATIVE OF HIS JOURNEY. 739 We were at an altitude of five thousand two hundred feet above thesea. The Albert Nyanza was over two thousand nine hundred belowus. We stood in 1° 20 N. lat; the south end of the Nyanza lay largelymapped about six miles south of this position. Right across to the. eastern shore every dent in its low, flat shore was visible, and traced likea silver snake on a dark ground was the tributary Laniliki, flowing intothe Albert from the southwest After a short halt to enjoy the prospect, we commenced the rugged 740 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. and stony descent. Before the rear-guard had descended one hundredfeet, the natives of the plateau we had just left poured after them. Hadthey shown as much courage and perseverance on the plain as they nowexhibited, we might have been seriously delayed. The rear-guard waskept very busy until within a few hundred feet of the Nyanza plain. Wecamped at the foot of the plateau wall, the aneroids readings two thou-sand five hundred feet above sea-level. A night attack was made on us,but our sentries sufficed to drive t
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