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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There Was None Of That Civility We Had Been
Until Now Pleased To Note:
Their express desire to barter was
accompanied with insolent hints that we ought to take their produce
at their own prices.
If we remonstrated they became angry;
retorting fiercely, impatient of opposition, they flew into
a passion, and were glib in threats. This strange conduct, so
opposite to that of the calm and gentle Wakwere, may be excellently
illustrated by comparing the manner of the hot-headed Greek with
that of the cool and collected German. Necessity compelled us
to purchase eatables of them, and, to the credit of the country
and its productions, be it said, their honey had the peculiar
flavour of that of famed Hymettus.
Following the latitudinal valley of the Ungerengeri, within two
hours on the following morning we passed close under the wall of
the capital of Useguhha - Simbamwenni. The first view of the
walled town at the western foot of the Uruguru mountains, with its
fine valley abundantly beautiful, watered by two rivers, and
several pellucid streams of water distilled by the dew and
cloud-enriched heights around, was one that we did not anticipate
to meet in Eastern Africa. In Mazanderan, Persia, such a scene
would have answered our expectations, but here it was totally
unexpected. The town may contain a population of 3,000, having
about 1,000 houses; being so densely crowded, perhaps 5,000 would
more closely approximate. The houses in the town are eminently
African, but of the best type of construction.
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