 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1862 - 914 pages
...vail of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illuminating but one reach of the lake, had shrunk its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely I began to lament...propose an immediate return with the view of exploring another lake, of which we had been informed by the natives, to the north, and called the Nyanza." But... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1860 - 520 pages
...of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illumninating but one reach of the lake, had shrunk its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely I began to lament...exaggeration, and to propose an immediate return, witn the view of exploring the Nyanza, or Northern Lake. Advancing, however, a few yards, the whole... | |
 | 1860 - 894 pages
...Somewhat promaturely I began to lament myfolly in having risked life and lost health for so" poor n prize, to curse Arab exaggeration, and to propose an immediate return with a view of exploring the Nyanza, or Nothcrn Lake. Advancing, however, a few yards the whole scene suddenly... | |
 | Josiah Tyler - 1873 - 812 pages
...veil of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illuminating but one reach of the lake, had shrank its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely I began to lament...having risked life and lost health for so poor a prize. Advancing, however, a few yards, the whole scene suddenly burst upon my view, filling me with admiration,... | |
 | Alexander Gruar Forbes - 1874 - 450 pages
...veil of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illuminating but one reach of the lake, had shrank its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely, I began to lament...propose an immediate return with the view of exploring Nyanza, a northern lake. Advancing, however, a few yards, the whole scene burst upon my view, filling... | |
 | Charles H. Jones - 1875 - 582 pages
...of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illuminating but one reach of the lake bend, shrunk its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely, I began to lament my folly in having risked life and lost breath for so poor a prize, to curso Arab exaggeration, and to propose an immediate return, with the... | |
 | John Small - 1876 - 646 pages
...veil of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illuminating but one reach of the lake, had shrunk its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely, I began to lament...view, filling me with admiration, wonder, and delight. Nothing, in sooth, could be more picturesque than this first view of Tanganyika Lake, as it lay in... | |
 | 1876 - 850 pages
...veil of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illuminating but one reach of the lake, had shrunk its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely I began to lament...having risked life and lost health for so poor a prize. Advancing, however, a few yards, the whole scene suddenly burst upon my view, filling me with admiration,... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1887 - 510 pages
...veil of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illuminating but one reach of the lake, had shrunk its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely, I began to lament...risked life and lost health for so poor a prize, to execrate Arab exaggeration, and to propose an immediate return, with the view of exploring the Nyanza,... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1890 - 876 pages
...Sidi Bombay. ' I am of opinion,' quoth Bombay, ' that that is the water.' I gazed in dismay. . . . Somewhat prematurely, I began to lament my folly in...having risked life and lost health for so poor a prize. . . . Advancing, however, a few yards, the whole scene suddenly burst upon my view, filling me with... | |
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I am of opinion,' quoth Bombay, 'that that is the water.' I gazed in dismay; the remains of my blindness, the veil of trees, and a broad ray of sunshine illuminating but one reach of the Lake, had shrunk its fair proportions. Somewhat prematurely I began... 
