How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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On The Banks Of The Ungerengeri Flourished The
Banana, And Overtopping It By Seventy Feet And More, Shot Up The
Stately Mparamusi, The Rival In Beauty Of The Persian Chenar And
Abyssinian Plane.
Its trunk is straight and comely enough for the
mainmast of a first, class frigate, while its expanding crown of
leafage is distinguished from all others by its density and vivid
greenness.
There were a score of varieties of the larger kind of
trees, whose far-extending branches embraced across the narrow but
swift river. The depressions of the valley and the immediate
neighbourhood of the river were choked with young forests of
tiger-grass and stiff reeds.
Mussoudi is situated on a higher elevation than the average level
of the village, and consequently looks down upon its neighbours,
which number a hundred and more. It is the western extremity of
Ukwere. On the western bank of the Ungerengeri the territory of
the Wakami commences. We had to halt one day at Mussoudi because
the poverty of the people prevented us from procuring the needful
amount of grain. The cause of this scantiness in such a fertile
and populous valley was, that the numerous caravans which had
preceded us had drawn heavily for their stores for the upmarches.
On the 14th we crossed the Ungerengeri, which here flows southerly
to the southern extremity of the valley, where it bends easterly
as far as Kisemo. After crossing the river here, fordable at all
times and only twenty yards in breadth, we had another mile of
the valley with its excessively moist soil and rank growth of
grass.
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