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Updated: May 21, 2025
With this I close the chapter of incidents experienced during our transit across the maritime region. A valley of despond, and hot-bed of malaria. Myriads of vermin. The Makata swamp. A sorrowful experience catching a deserter. A far-embracing prospect. Illness of William Farquhar.-Lake Ugombo. A land of promise. The great Kisesa. The plague of earwigs.
The 8th of May saw us with our terribly jaded men and animals winding up the steep slopes of the first line of hills; gaining the summit of which we obtained a view remarkably grand, which exhibited as in a master picture the broad valley of the Makata, with its swift streams like so many cords of silver, as the sunshine played on the unshadowed reaches of water, with its thousands of graceful palms adding not a little to the charm of the scene, with the great wall of the Uruguru and Uswapanga mountains dimly blue, but sublime in their loftiness and immensity forming a fit background to such an extensive, far-embracing prospect.
Long before dawn appeared, we were on the march, and, as daylight broke, we emerged from the bamboo jungle, and struck across the naked plain of Uhha, once more passing several large pools by the way far-embracing prospects of undulating country, with here and there a characteristic clump of trees relieving the general nudity of the whole.
Now, too, the front rows of stalls, which he knew were reserved for the critics, began to fill, and a waft of unpleasantness came to him as he recognised a few of the acquaintances he had made at recent supper parties. The disturbance was fatal to his mood. He felt suddenly unstrung. A strange sense of unhappiness invaded him a bitter, far-embracing uncertainty.
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