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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Classic Reprint)
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile - Classic Reprint Author:John Hanning Speke INTRODUCTION IN the following pages I have endeavored to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice 4uring my sojourn in the interior of Africa. If my account should not entirely harmonize with preconceived notions as to primitive races, Ilcan not help it. 1 profess a... more »ccurately to describe nak~d Africa-Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or for evil, from European civilization, If the picture be a dark one, we should, when contemplating these sons of~oah, try and carry our mind back to that time when our poor elder brother Ram was cursed by his father, and condemned to be the slave of both Shem and Japheth; for as they were then, so they appear to be now-a strikingly existing proof of the lIoly Scriptures. But one thing must be remembered: While the people of Europe and Asia were blessed by communion with God through the medium
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CON TEN T S; CHAPTER I; LO~"DO~ TO ZANZIBAR, 1859; The Design-Tbe fupllrations-DcpIllCw-c-The Cape-The ZOll) KafirsTUrtle-; tllfJ'liog-Capwrc of a Slacr-Arrivo at Zanzibar-Local l'olitics Ilnu; :News sinco last Vi5it-Organil:ntion of tbe Expedition ???? rllgc 31; CHAt'TEl{ U; IJ'tAnAMO; The Nature of the Country-Tho Order of Marcb-The llegiDoiog of onr Tnxatian-; Sultan Lion's Claw and Sultan Monkey'S Tl1il-The Kingani-Jealotlsies; and Difficulties in the Cllmp-The ):Il1rdereT of M Maizan 43; CHAPTER III; USAGAIU; N utllro /If the Connlry-Resumptioo·of tho March-A fll1nt-Bombay null Bar!lka; -Tho Slav(lhnntcrs-Thc Ivory-merchants-Colleclion of Nawrll-bistory SpecimOM-; A frigbtened VilIngc-Trackins l Mule IJ6; CHAPTER IV; UGOGO, A"m TIm WJLI)~n~E5S 01' MGUNDA ~KBALI; Th~ Lie of thoColllltry-Rhinoccroo-stalkiog-Scuffie ofVillngcrs over 3 Cnrc« less