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Title: 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
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Henry M. Stanley
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Publisher: George Newnes
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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1877.) A DESPERATE DILEMMA. 11.) have been possible to have dragged the canoes the length ofthe island past the first terrace of the cataract, and, afterdashing across to Ntunduru Island, to have dragged themthrough its jungle and risked the falls by Asama Island ; butthere were not thirty men in the entire Expedition capableof listening to orders and implicitly obeying instructions. To the east of Cheandoah the right branch was againforked by another island, and the whole face of the river waswild beyond description, and the din of its furious wavesstunning ; while the western branch, such was its force,went rushing down a terrace, and then swept round in anextensive whulpool with a central depression c;uite eighteeninches below the outer rim. We pushed a rotten and con-demned canoe above the fall, watched it shoot down like anarrow, and circle round that terrible whirling pool, and the-next instant saw it drawn in by that dreadful suction, andpresently ejected stern foremost 30 yard

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