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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Kisabengo Was Another Theodore On A Small Scale.
Sprung From Humble Ancestry, He Acquired Distinction For His
Personal Strength, His Powers Of Harangue, And His Amusing And
Versatile Address, By Which He Gained Great Ascendency Over
Fugitive Slaves, And Was Chosen A Leader Among Them.
Fleeing
from justice, which awaited him at the hands of the Zanzibar Sultan,
he arrived in Ukami, which extended
At that time from Ukwere to
Usagara, and here he commenced a career of conquest, the result
of which was the cession by the Wakami of an immense tract of
fertile country, in the valley of the Ungerengeri. On its most
desirable site, with the river flowing close under the walls,
he built his capital, and called it Simbamwenni, which means
"The Lion," or the strongest, City. In old age the successful
robber and kidnapper changed his name of Kisabengo, which had
gained such a notoriety, to Simbamwenni, after his town; and when
dying, after desiring that his eldest daughter should succeed him,
he bestowed the name of the town upon her also, which name of
Simbamwenni the Sultana now retains and is known by.
While crossing a rapid stream, which, as I said before flowed close
to the walls, the inhabitants of Simbamwenni had a fine chance of
gratifying their curiosity of seeing the "Great Musungu," whose
several caravans had preceded him, and who unpardonably, because
unlicensed, had spread a report of his great wealth and power.
I was thus the object of a universal stare.
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