Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 264
disaster. In a moment of thoughtlessness, thewoman let a stranger see the well and attempt tocatch one of the fish. Then the earth groanedand heaved, the well sank, and its place wascovered by the sheet of water, bottomless and … was a marvelous well full of crystal-clear water, and vast, that is now known as Tanganyika, a name with many fish upon which the aged couple lived, signifying a plain of water. The gods had told them that so long as they Stanleys march from Tanganyika to the river never divulged the secret the…
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