The Albert N'yanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile of sources
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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 192 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: . . . The path was narrow, but good, and after an hours march we halted for the night on the banks of a deep and clear stream, the Un-y-ame;--this stream is perennial, and receiving many rivulets from Shooa, it forms a considerable torrent during the rainy season, and joins the Nile in N. lat. 3 32 at the limit reached by Signor Miani, 1S59, the first traveller who ever attained a point so far south in Nile explorations from Egypt. There was no wood for fires, neither dung of animals; thus without fuel we went supperless to bed. Although the sun was painfully hot during the day, the nights were so cold (about 55 Fahr. ) that we could hardly sleep. For two days we marched through high dry grass, (about ten feet), when a clear night allowed an observation, and the meridian altitude of Capella gave latitude 2 45 37. In this interminable sea of prairie it was interesting to watch our progress south. On the following day our guide lost the road; a large herd of elephants had obscured it by trampling hundreds of paths in all directions. The wind was strong from the north, and I proposed to clear the country to the south by firing the prairies. There were numerous deep swamps in the bottoms between the undulations, and upon arrival at one of these green dells we fired the grass on the opposite side. In a few minutes it roared before us, and we enjoyed the grand sight of the boundless prairies blazing like infernal regions, and rapidly clearing a path south. Flocks of buzzards and the beautiful varieties of fiy-catchers thronged to the dense smoke to prey upon the innumerable insects that endeavoured to escape from the approaching fire. In about an hour we marched over the black and smoking ground, every now and then meeting dead stumps of palm trees blazin. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 192 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: . . . The path was narrow, but good, and after an hours march we halted for the night on the banks of a deep and clear stream, the Un-y-ame;--this stream is perennial, and receiving many rivulets from Shooa, it forms a considerable torrent during the rainy season, and joins the Nile in N. lat. 3 32 at the limit reached by Signor Miani, 1S59, the first traveller who ever attained a point so far south in Nile explorations from Egypt. There was no wood for fires, neither dung of animals; thus without fuel we went supperless to bed. Although the sun was painfully hot during the day, the nights were so cold (about 55 Fahr. ) that we could hardly sleep. For two days we marched through high dry grass, (about ten feet), when a clear night allowed an observation, and the meridian altitude of Capella gave latitude 2 45 37. In this interminable sea of prairie it was interesting to watch our progress south. On the following day our guide lost the road; a large herd of elephants had obscured it by trampling hundreds of paths in all directions. The wind was strong from the north, and I proposed to clear the country to the south by firing the prairies. There were numerous deep swamps in the bottoms between the undulations, and upon arrival at one of these green dells we fired the grass on the opposite side. In a few minutes it roared before us, and we enjoyed the grand sight of the boundless prairies blazing like infernal regions, and rapidly clearing a path south. Flocks of buzzards and the beautiful varieties of fiy-catchers thronged to the dense smoke to prey upon the innumerable insects that endeavoured to escape from the approaching fire. In about an hour we marched over the black and smoking ground, every now and then meeting dead stumps of palm trees blazin. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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