The new Africa : a journey up the Chobe and down the Okovanga rivers : a record of exploration and sport (1897)
Schulz, Aurel, Hammar, August, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : W. Heinemann · leaf 252
THE NEW AFRICA 220 eight miles before breakfast, through sand-belts, when the country seemed to rise suddenly in a wave, on the apex of which stood a large baobab tree, the first we had seen for many days. From this tree we caught a glimpse of the Okovanga river, flowing … FIRST VIEW OF THE OKOVANGA rapidly through well-wooded banks in the valley below, about a mile off. The sight of running water — bubbling, flashing, and curling in the beautiful sunlight — gladdened our very souls, after the weary seventeen days’ tramp across the dreary sand-belts, and seemed to…
Botswana -- Description and travel
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