Tramps Round the Mountains of the Moon And Through the Back Gate of the Congo St
Tramps Round the Mountains of the Moon And Through the Back Gate of the Congo St
Thomas Broadwood Johnson
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Very few of those who come out to Uganda penetrate as far as Toro, situated as it is on the very western edge of the Protectorate, and leading nowhere except into the blackness of those vast thousands of square miles of such sad repute — the great Congo forest. The giant precipice, which lies scarcely ten miles away on our west from Kabarole, the capital, seems to act not simply as a check to the traveller, but almost as a barrier to the imagination ; as the eye falls upon 63 64 PRELIMINARY PEE...P AT TORO TO-DAY this great mass, the range of Ruwenzori mountains, thought seems to rest there and travel no further. For more than two thousand years, since the days when the chatty Greek historian, Herodotus, went on his enterprising travels, note-book in hand, and jotted down all they told him in the land of the Pharaohs (that wonderful land of such strange stories !), the region beyond these mountains has been believed to be the home of the Pygmies ; a few centuries later, namely in A. D.
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