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






 -   Of Sheikh Said he was
equally jealous, for a like reason; and his jealousy increased
the more that I found - Page 65
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Of Sheikh Said He Was Equally Jealous, For A Like Reason; And His Jealousy Increased The More That I Found It Necessary To Censure The Timidity Of This Otherwise Worthy Little Man.

Baraka thought, in his conceit, that he could have done all things better, and gained signal fame, had he been created chief.

Perhaps he thought he had gained the first step towards this exalted rank, and hence his appearing very happy for this time. I could not see through so deep a scheme and only hoped that he would shortly forget, in the changes of the marching life, those beautiful wives he had left behind him, which Bombay in his generosity tried to persuade me was the cause of his mental distraction.

Our halt at the ford here was cut short by the increasing sickness of the Hottentots, and the painful fact that Captain Grant was seized with fever.[FN#6] We had to change camp to the little village of Kiruru, where, as rice was grown - an article not to be procured again on this side of Unyamuezi - we stopped a day to lay in supplies of this most valuable of all travelling food. Here I obtained the most consistent accounts of the river system which, within five days' journey, trends through Uzegura; and I concluded, from what I heard, that there is no doubt of the Mukondokua and Wami rivers being one and the same stream. My informants were the natives of the settlement, and they all concurred in saying that the Kingani above the junction is called the Rufu, meaning the parent stream.

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