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Title: The Tanganyika problem; an account of the researches undertaken concerning the existence of marine animals in Central Africa
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, John Edward S
Subjects: Zoology Marine animals Freshwater animals
Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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it is in fact so extremely beautiful,that, could it be divested of its sweltering tropical con-comitants, I am inclined to think that these natural parks,when compared with those of the landscape gardener athome, would be generally admitted to be the more pleasingof the two. Unnatural-looking park-lands of this description are verycharacteristic of vast areas of the African interior, and theyhave, in consequence, naturally attracted the attention andprovoked the admiration of many explorers besides myself.Thus we find Stanley and Stuhlmann, Emin Pasha andCassati, Joseph Thomson and Sir Richard Burton, alldrawing attention to the existence and peculiar appearanceof these parks. As a matter of fact, they cover very largeareas of tropical Africa, both in the interior and on thecoast. I myself have encountered them on the plainsbehind Beira, on the great alluvial plains bordering theZambesi river, on the similar flats flanking the Lowerand Upper Shiri river, all over the great plains sur-
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