station-marks

Updated: May 9, 2025

This and the former one served as good station-marks for the journey, the latter being visible at eight miles' distance. After the first eight miles, which terminates the cultivated district of Salawe, the track penetrated a waterless desert of thorn and small tree-forest, lying in a broad valley between low hills.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile