It Took Us About Four Hours
To Cross The Leeba, Which Is Considerably Smaller Here
Than Where We Left It - Indeed, Only About A Hundred Yards Wide.
It Has The Same Dark Mossy Hue.
The villagers lent us canoes
to effect our passage; and, having gone to a village about two miles
beyond
The river, I had the satisfaction of getting observations
for both longitude and latitude - for the former, the distance between
Saturn and the Moon, and for the latter a meridian altitude of Canopus.
Long. 22d 57' E., lat. 12d 6' 6" S.
These were the only opportunities I had of ascertaining my whereabouts
in this part of Londa. Again and again did I take out the instruments,
and, just as all was right, the stars would be suddenly obscured by clouds.
I had never observed so great an amount of cloudiness
in any part of the south country; and as for the rains, I believe
that years at Kolobeng would not have made my little tent so rotten and thin
as one month had done in Londa. I never observed in the south
the heavy night and early morning rains we had in this country.
They often continued all night, then became heavier about an hour before dawn.
Or if fair during the night, as day drew nigh, an extremely heavy,
still, pouring rain set in without warning. Five out of every six days
we had this pouring rain, at or near break of day, for months together;
and it soon beat my tent so thin, that a mist fell through on my face
and made every thing damp.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 467 of 1070
Words from 133409 to 133680
of 306638
