The Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke  






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On the 9th, having bought two donkeys and engaged several men, we
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On The 9th, Having Bought Two Donkeys And Engaged Several Men, We Left Jiwa La Mkoa, With Half Our Traps, And Marched To Garaeswi, Where, To My Surprise, There Were As Many As Twenty Tembes - A Recently-Formed Settlement Of Wokimbu.

Here we halted a day for the rear convoy, and then went on again by detachments to Zimbo, where,

To our intense delight, Bombay returned to us on the 13th, triumphantly firing guns, with seventy slaves accompanying him, and with letters from Snay and Musa, in which they said they hoped, if I met with Manua Sera, that I would either put a bullet through his head, or else bring him in a prisoner, that they might do for him, for the scoundrel had destroyed all their trade by cutting off caravans. Their fights with him commenced by his levying taxes in opposition to their treaties with his father, Fundi Kira, and then preventing his subjects selling them grain.

Once more the whole caravan moved on; but as I had to pay each of the seventy slaves sixteen yards of cloth, by order of their masters, in the simple matter of expenditure it would have been better had I thrown ten loads away at Ugogo, where my difficulties first commenced. On arrival at Mgongo Thembo - the Elephant's Back - called so in consequence of a large granitic rock, which resembles the back of that animal, protruding through the ground - we found a clearance in the forest, of two miles in extent, under cultivation.

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