It was, I must confess, only by chance that I found myself there at all, for I had been heading in a quite different direction from Tanganyika northwards to the valley of the upper Nile.

• 我必须承认，只是出于偶然的机会我才到了那地方，因为我原来去的是另一个方向，从坦噶尼喀向北到上尼罗河谷。