Across Africa

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G. Philip & son, 1877 - Africa, Central - 569 pages

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Page 413 - I was constrained to halt, and surrender myself to the enjoyment of the view which lay before me. " I will content myself with asserting that nothing could be more lovely than this entrancing scene, this glimpse of Paradise.
Page 214 - On the 3d of May there was a slashing breeze freshening up from the eastward, and I made sail with many a hope that I might in a few hours find myself in the outflowing Lukuga. Shortly before noon I arrived at its entrance, more than a mile across, but closed by a grass-grown sand-bank, with the exception of a channel three or four hundred yards wide. Across this there is a sill where the surf breaks heavily at times, although there is more than a fathom of water at its most shallow part.
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Page 472 - Slaves, ivory, bees-wax and india-rubber are now the only articles exported from either coast, with the exception of a small and local trade from the eastern littoral in gum-copal and grain. Of these, ivory and slaves occupy such a prominent position, that it would be hardly worth while to mention the others, were it not that the existing trade in them proves that commerce in other articles besides slaves and ivory may be made profitable. The...
Page 413 - ... in the far distance were mountains of endless and pleasing variety of form, gradually fading away until they blended with the blue of the sky.

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