Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, 2. köideS. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle., 1876 |
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Africa Ambriz amongst Aneroid Angola Annabom Banza Nokki Barbot Boma bush Cabinda calabash called canoes Captain Tuckey Cazembe chart chief Chingufu chya cloth coast Congo River Congoese Cuanza Cuanza River Dahome declared Ditto Douville east English European Expedition factory Father feet Fetish French Gaboon Geographical Gidi Mavunga hills huts Island king Kinsembo L'engagé lake land Livingstone Loanda Loango lower Merolla miles moleques mouth native negro Niger Nile Noon north-east northern Nsundi Nzadi Padrão palm palm oil palm wine passed Paulo Point Porto da Lenha Portuguese rains right bank rocks round Royal Geographical Society São Paulo sea-breeze season Sept September sera settlement Shark Point showed slaves Sonho southern bank stream tion Tom Peter trade travail traveller trees Tuckey's village visited Vivi whilst wild wind women Yellala Zaire Zambeze
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Page 304 - gan to pass Long ere the brighte" sun uprisen was ; " In which were cake"s great, straight as a line, Under the which the grass so fresh of hue Was newly sprung ; and an eight foot or nine Eve"ry tree well from his fellow grew, With branches broad laden with leaves new, That sprungen out against the sunne sheen, Some very red, and some a glad light green...
Page 114 - Sugar would be too dear, if the plants which produce it were cultivated by any other than slaves. "These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose, that they can scarcely be pitied. "It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body.
Page 175 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 179 - NW and the other to the NE; that in the latter there is a fall, but that canoes are easily got above it ; that twenty days above the island, the river issues by many small streams from a great marsh or lake of mud.
Page 254 - of the kingdom of Congo, is the mild spring or autumn of Italy ; it is not subject to rains, but every morning there falls a dew which fertilizes the earth.' None of the party make any complaint of the climate ; they speak, on the contrary, in their notes and memoranda, of the cool, dry, and refreshing atmosphere, especially after the western breezes set in, which they usually do an hour or two after the sun has passed the meridian, and continue till midnight...
Page 195 - ... by other former mariners of the lake whom I had with me. At the least, this place where we halted for dinner, on the banks of the Rugufu River, is eighteen and a half hours, or fortysix miles, from Ujiji; and, as Kabogo is said to be near Uguhha, it must be over sixty miles from Ujiji; therefore the sound of the thundering surf, which is said to roll into the caves of Kabogo, was heard by us at a distance of over one hundred miles away from them.
Page 248 - ... The disk of the sun was hall-concealed by the mist. The difference of longitude between the quarter of the Trinidad and the eastern peak of the Silla appears scarcely to exceed 0° 3- 22"*. Whilst, seated on the rock, I was determining the dip of the needle, I found my hands covered with a species of hairy bee, a little smaller than the honey-bee of the north of Europe.
Page 179 - The idea of a lake seems to have arisen from the " extraordinary quiet rise" of the river, which was from three to six inches in twenty four hours. If the rise of the Zaire had proceeded from rains to the southward of the line, swelling the tributary streams, and pouring, in mountain torrents, the waters into the main channel, the rise would have been sudden and impetuous; but coming on as it did in a quiet and regular manner, it could proceed only from the gradual overflowing of a lake.
Page 290 - Here the Nzadi is bounded by low limestone hills already showing the alluvial basin of Central Africa; and the land is well populated, because calcareous districts are fertile in the tropics and provisions are plentiful. Prof. Smith (p. 336) was "so much enraptured with the improved appearance of the country and the magnificence of the river, that it was with the greatest difficulty he was prevailed on to return." Of course, the coaster middle-men report the people to be cannibals. From the Vivi...
Page 60 - ... miles, as Lopez affirmeth, in the opening ; but meeting with a more giantlike enemie which lies lurking under the cliffes to receive his assault, is presently swallowed in that wider wombe, yet so, as always being conquered, he never gives over, but in an eternall quarrel, with deepe and indented frownes in his angry face, foaming with disdaine, and filling the aire with noise, (with fresh helpe) supplies those forces which the salt-sea hath consumed.