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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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er to carryher young, and attending strictly to the proprietiesof soko society. A young soko which was in thedoctors possession had many intelligent and winningways; showed great affection and gratitude, wascareful in making its bed and tucking itself in everynight, and scrupulously wiped its nose with leaves.In short, it must be allowed that the native verdictthat the soko have good in him is borne out bythe known facts, and that in some respects he com-pares not unfavourably, both in character and man-ners, with some of the men we make acquaintancewith in our wanderings through Africa. < rossing the (lhambesi, and climbing the northernslope of the valley, Livingstone, in the beginning ofApril L867, found himself on the mountains over-hanging a shed of water called bake Liemba, whichsubsequently turned out to be the southern end ofour old acquaintance,Tanganyika Thence his routezigzagged away to the westward, through a landlull of swamp and slow-running streams, flowing %z3^:mmmmB
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u SPONGE^ — NEW LAKES 151 towards the setting sun. So saturated was the soilwith moisture, that for days solid land was not tobe found. Where there was not absolute swampand mire, the ground was covered with a mattedgreen carpet—a thin crust of vegetation and soilcovering the waters under the earth —which roseand fell a foot at each step. These treacherousplaces had to be crossed with a light step, and with-out pausing, for at the least delay the foot mightslip through the floating mass, and the unhappytraveller plunge up to the armpits in mire. In the spring of 1867, the reservoir which absorbedthe contents of this sponge-like tract was reached.This was Lake Moero, a sheet of water almost insig-nificant for Central Africa, yet whose farther shorewas not visible, except on very clear days, to thevisitor to its coasts. A black wall of mountainsfrowned on its western side, but elsewhere its bankswere flat. A broad, deep stream flowed into itssouthern end, and escaped at its northe

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