Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-05-16
geletteh Miscellany*
ROMANCE OF TRAVEL,

From valuable work, entitled "The
Lake Regions of Central Africa, Picture
of Expostulations," recently published by
Harper & Brothers, we make the cxcerps
subjoincd. The author of this volume,
Richard T. Burton, is Captain in the
British army in India, and is known far and
near from his daring and adventurous pill
grimagc to Mecca and Medina, some years
since, whittier he went disguised as a Mo-
hammedan fakir. The volume before us
contains the history of his journeyings, from
the autumn of 1856 to the spring Of 1859,
extending throughout eastern Africa.
TANGANYIKA LAKE.
Nothing could be more picturesque than
f4S t a5 Tf EsH s @ S5 i 5A4 n5 T4nSHnEk 4k e
in the gorgeous tropical sunshine. Below
and beyond short foreground of rugged
and precipitous hill fold, down which the
foot-path zigzags painfully, a narrow strip
of emerald green, never scar and marvel
lousy fertile, shelves toward a ribbon of
glistcning yellow sand, here bordered by
sedgy rushes, there cleanly and clearly cut
by the breaking wavelets. Farther in front
stretches the waters, an expanse Of the light
est and softest blue, in breadth varying
from thirty to thirty five miles, and sprink
led by the crisp cast wind with tiny cres-
cents of snowy foam. The background in
front is high and broken wall Of steel
colorcd mountain, here feckcd and capped
with pcarly mist, there standing sharply
pencillcd against the azure air its yawning
chasms, marked by deeper plum color,
fall toward dwarf hills of mound-likc pro-
portions. which apparently dip their feet in
the wave To the south, and opposite the
long low point behind which the Malagarazi
river discharges the red loan suspended in
its violent stream, lie the bluff headlands
and capcs Of Uguhha, and as the eye dilatcs,
it falls upon cluster of outlying islcts
speckling a sca-horizon. Villages, culti-
waited lands. the frequent canoes Of the fish
ermcn on the waters, and on a nearer ap-
preach the murmurs of the waves breaking
upon the shore, giving something of varie-
ty Of movement, of life, to the landscape,
which, like all the faircst prospects in these
regions, wants but little Of the ncatness
and finish of art-moslues and kiosks, pala-
ces and villas, gardens and orchards-con-
trasting with the profuse lavishness and
magniiccnce of nature, and divcrsifying the
unbroken coup T0I of excessive vegctation
to rival if not to excel, the most admired
scenery of the classic regions. The RANT
shores Of this vast crerassc appeared doubly
beautiful to me after the silent and spectral
mangrovc-crccks on the East African sea-
board, and the melancholy, monotonous ex-
perience Of desert and jungle scenery, tawny
rock and sun-parched plain or rank herbage
and flats of black mire Truly it was a
revel for soul and sight. Forgetting tolls.
dangers and the doubtfulncss of return, l
felt willing to endure double what [ had
endured; and all the party seemed to join
with me in joy. My purblind companion
found nothing to grumble at, except the
'smist and glare before his eyes" Said bin
Salim looked exulting had procured for
me this pleasure-the monoculous iemadar
grinned his congratulations, and even the
surly Baloch made civil salaams.
STUMP SPEECH.
Before settling for the nj ght Kidogo stood
up, and to loud cries of ''AIaneno! mancno !'
words! words equivalent to our par
liamentary hear! hear .-dclivered himself
of the following speech: "Lstcn, O ye
whites! and ye children Of Sayyidi Majidi
and yc sons of Ramji! hearkcn to my words,
0 ye offspring of the night! The journey
entcreth Ugogo-Ugogo-(he orator threw
out his arm westward.) Beware, and again
beware, Che made violent gesticulations.)
You don't know the Wagogo they are 5
and 5. Che stampcd.) Speak not to those
Washcnzl pagans; enter not into their houses,
(he pointed grimly to the ground.) Have