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Title: The Albert N'yaza
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
Subjects: Nile river. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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everal natives, who hadattacked him while unloaded. The natives, seeing thedetermined attitude of the boy, and thinking that thedrumstick was a firearm, ran off. We started at day-break on 13th January, and, ascending the whole way,we reached Shooa, in latitude 3° 4. The route throughouthad been of the same park-like character, interspersedwith occasional hills of fine granite, piled in the enormousblocks so characteristic of that stone. Shooa was a lovely place. A fine granite mountainascended in one block in a sheer precipice for about 800feet from its base, perfectly abrupt on the eastern side,while the other portions of the mountain were coveredwith fine forest trees, and picturesquely dotted over withvillages. This country formed a natural park, remarkablywell watered.by numerous rivulets, ornamented with finetimber, and interspersed with numerous high rocks ofgranite, which from a distance produced the effect ofruined castles. The pasturage was of a superior quality, and of the
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Chap. X.) ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 261 same description as that of Farajoke. The country beingundulating, there was a small brook in every valley thatformed a natural drain. Accordingly, the more elevatedland was remarkably dry and healthy. On arrival atthe foot of the abrupt mountain, we camped beneath animmense india-rubber tree, that afforded a delightful shade,from which elevated spot we had a superb view of thesurrounding country, and could see the position ofDebonos camp, about twenty-five miles to the west bynorth, at the foot of the Faloro hills. By Casellas thermometer, I determined the altitude ofShooa to be 3,877 feet—1,002 feet above the Asua river,and 89 feet lower than Farajoke. These observations ofthe thermometer agreed with the natural appearance of thecountry, the Asua river forming the main drain in a deepvalley, into which innumerable rivulets convey the drain-age from both north and south. Accordingly, the Asua,receiving the Atabbi river, which is the main drain of th

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