... the mountains, while two of them at least had their ori-gin in the eternal snows of the northern and southern peaks. So far asthey could see from the air-ship, the lake had no outlet, and they ... uneventful, and the course that they pursuedled them westward through the Zegzeb and Nyfi countries, then north-westward along the valley of the Niger, and then westward across the desert to the desolate ... sun; the high moun-tains of the African coast rose to right and left and in front of them; andthrough the breaks in the chain they could see the huge masses ofAbyssinia to the southward, and the...