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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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there was to be yet no rest for me,and that to save life I should have to be assiduous andwatchful. But for this, I should have surrendered myself tothe joys of life, without a thought for myself or for others, ISTT.) EABINDA. 303 .aud uo (l()ul)t I should liuve .suiiercd iu the same degreeAS the NVangwana from tlie effects of the sudden relaxationfrom care, troul)lo, or necessity for further effort. Therewere also other claims on iiiy energies : 1 had to write my•despatches to the journals, and to re-establish those bonds offriendship and sympathetic communion that had been severedby the lapse of dark years and long months of silence. Mypoor people, however, had no such incentives to rouse them-selves from the stupor of indifference, as fatal to them as the■cold to a benighted man iu a snowy wilderness. Housedtogether in a comfortable, barrack-like building, with every■convenience provided for them, and supplied with food,raiment, fuel, water, and an excess of luxuries, nothing
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EXPEDITION AT KABINDA. (From a plwtoijraph hi/ Mr. PhiUijJs.) xemaiued for them to do ; and the consequence was, that the.nbrupt dead-stop to all action and movement overwhelmedthem, and plunged them into a state of torpid brooding fromwhich it was difficult to arouse them.The words of the poet— Whats \Tou is done: Joys soul lies in the doing — •or, as Longfellow has it—• The reward is in the doing.And the rapture of pursuingIs the prize— Tecurred to me, as explaining why it was that the peopleabandoned themselves to the dangerous melancholy created 364 THBOUGH THE DA UK CONTIKENT. (ISTT. by inactivity. I was charmed hy it myself; the senses werefast relapsing into a drowsy state, that appeared to be akinto the drowsiness of delirium. No novel or romance in-terested me, though Mr. Phillipss cottage possessed a com-plete library of fiction and light reading. Dickens seemedrubbish, and the finest poems flat. Frequently, even atmeals, I found myself subsiding into sleep, thou

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