Rumanika, It Appeared, As I Always Had
Heard, Considered Old Musa His Saviour, For Having Eight Years
Before Quelled A Rebellion, When His Younger Brother, Rogero,
Aspired To The Throne; Whilst Musa's Honour And Honesty Were
Quite Unimpeachable.
But more of this hereafter.
Khonze, the next place, lying in the bending concave of this
swamp lake, and facing Hangiro, was commanded by a fine elderly
man called Muzegi, who was chief officer during Dagara's time.
He told me with the greatest possible gravity, that he remembered
well the time when a boat could have gone from this to Vigura; as
also when fish and crocodiles came up from the Kitangule; but the
old king no sooner died than the waters dried up; which showed as
plainly as words could tell, that the king had designed it, to
make men remember him with sorrow in all future ages. Our
presents after this having been exchanged, the good old man, at
my desire, explained the position of all the surrounding
countries, in his own peculiar manner, by laying a long stick on
the ground pointing due north and south, to which he attached
shorter ones pointing to the centre of each distant country. He
thus assisted me in the protractions of the map, to the countries
which lie east and west of the route.
Shortly after starting this morning, we were summoned by the last
officer on the Urigi to take breakfast with him, as he could not
allow us to pass by without paying his respects to the king's
guests.
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