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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It Then Ascended Into A Higher Elevation, And Led Through
A Forest Of Mparamusi, Tamarind, Tamarisk, Acacia, And The Blooming
Mimosa.
This ascent was continued for two hours, when we stood
upon the spine of the largest ridge, where we could obtain free
views of the wooded plain below and the distant ridges of Kisemo,
which we had but lately left.
A descent of a few hundred feet
terminated in a deep but dry mtoni with a sandy bed, on the other
side of which we had to regain the elevation we had lost, and a
similar country opened into view until we found a newly-made boma
with well-built huts of grass rear a pool of water, which we at
once occupied as a halting-place for the night. The cart gave us
considerable trouble; not even our strongest donkey, though it
carried with ease on its back 196 lbs., could draw the cart with
a load of only 225 lbs. weight.
Early on the morning of the 15th we broke camp and started for
Mikeseh. By 8.30 A.M. we were ascending the southern face of the
Kira Peak. When we had gained the height of two hundred feet above
the level of the surrounding country, we were gratified with a
magnificent view of a land whose soil knows no Sabbath.
After travelling the spine of a ridge abutting against the southern
slope of Kira we again descended into the little valley of
Kiwrima, the first settlement we meet in Udoe, where there is
always an abundant supply of water.
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