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Title: The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Geddie, John, 1848-1937
Subjects: Rivers -- Africa Africa, Central -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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all, three hundred and fifty-six soulsconnected with the Anglo-American expedition. Thelengthy line occupies nearly half a mile of the path.Mr. Stanley did not mean to be stopped on theroute he had chosen by the objections of any nativechief to the passage of the little army through histerritory. If the opposition were carried to the ex-tent of a challenge of battle, the American explorerwas prepared to accept it and fight his way through.In this way he counted on avoiding the long delays,the roundabout routes, and the fragmentary resultswhich had marked the efforts of previous travellers.It is an admirable method, if your main object isto get through the work rapidly, if you are strong• nough to despise all assaults, and if you have noprospect of travelling the -ami road again. Itswisdom and justifiableness need not be discussed;luit it may simply be remarked that this conjunctionof campaigning and exploration gives an extra spiceof danger and an exciting variety to the narrative,
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THE SOUTHERN LIMIT OF THE NILE BASIX. 61 which carries us back to the time when the Con-quistadors were busy carving out with their swordsrich provinces for Spain and Portugal in the NewWorld. Mr. Stanley carried with him, it will be seen, thesections of a boat, forty feet in length, wherewith toexplore the Victoria Nyanza, or any other great lakeor stream that he might meet with on his course.He had with him as assistants three Englishmen—Francis and Edward Pocock, young Thames water-men, and a clerk named Frederick Barker—none ofwhom, alas ! ever emerged from the deadly jungles ofCentral Africa which they entered so light-heartedly. Unyanyembe is the usual half-way house of tra-vellers to the lakes ; but, breaking off to the rightbefore reaching that unhealthy den of black-mailers,Mr. Stanley marched his array north-westwards tillabout the fifth degree of south latitude he reachedthe water-parting, where the streams begin to flownorthwards. Here, in a plain over five thousandfee

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