Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, Vol. 2 (of 2)Werne, Ferdinand
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Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Werne, Ferdinand
Nile River
The mountains lie around in the following direction: Mount Lof-et
rises behind Mount Pelenjà, to S.E. by E., at a distance of
about four hours, like an isolated mountain of small height. Mount
Pelenjà, to S.E., in tolerable extent, from its peak about eight
hundred feet high, S.E., 60″ to S. and 75″ to E., some three
hours distant, a small mountain group of a rocky nature, and partly
wooded, completely secluded. The mountain chain of Logojà, where
cannibals dwell, the anterior peak of which seems to project to N.,
rises at a distance of from eight to nine hours, to a height like
that of the seven hills seen from Cologne, with a lofty back, which
appears, so far as it is not concealed from the eye by the mountains
lying before it right and left, to extend from S.E. southerly 60″
long. The Hill of Liènajin, or Linanzin, a gently rising rock,
covered with bushes, towards S.E. 50″ to S., distant an hour and
a half. The still smaller rocks of Arlu, to S.E. by S., two hours
distant; the rocks of Luluri or Lullulù to S.E. 30″ to S., one
hour and a half. In the S. rises Mount Lugi, smoothed at the top,
with precipitous disrupt walls of rock, which does not appear to
exceed Korèk in height, and may have six hundred feet relative
height. The river winds a little to the W. around its base, and this
mountain may once have formed a terrace, which has joined to the
mountain chain of Kàlleri, lying behind to S.S.E., forming as it
were the foot to the mass of mountains rising up in the S. We see
on the unevenly elevated rocky wall of Kàlleri, the dry bed of a
cataract, to which even the natives drew our attention.
[Illustration: MOUNT PELENJA. MOUNTAIN CHAIN OF LOGOJA. MT. KORESCHIP.
MT. KONNOPI. ISLAND OF KORIANA.
COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT SHORE OF THE NILE FROM THE ISLAND OF TSHANKER,
TOWARDS SOUTH-EAST.—27TH JANUARY, 1841.]
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