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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But They, As Well As Madame
Simbamwenni, Were Informed, That As We Knew It Was Their Custom To
Charge Owners Of Caravans But One Tribute, And As They Remembered
The Musungu (Farquhar) Had Paid Already, It Was Not Fair That I
Should Have To Pay Again.
The ambassadors replied with a "Ngema"
(very well), and promised to carry my answer back to their
mistress.
Though it was by no means "very well " in fact, as it
will be seen in a subsequent chapter how the female Simbamwenni
took advantage of an adverse fortune which befell me to pay
herself. With this I close the chapter of incidents experienced
during our transit across the maritime region.
CHAPTER VI. TO UGOGO.
A valley of despond, and hot-bed of malaria. - Myriads of vermin. -
The Makata swamp. - A sorrowful experience catching a deserter. - A
far-embracing prospect. - Illness of William Farquhar.-Lake Ugombo. -
A land of promise. - The great Kisesa. - The plague of earwigs.
The distance from Bagamoyo to Simbamwenni we found to be 119 miles,
and was accomplished in fourteen marches. But these marches, owing
to difficulties arising from the Masika season, and more especially
to the lagging of the fourth caravan under Maganga, extended to
twenty-nine days, thus rendering our progress very slow indeed -
but a little more than four miles a-day. I infer, from what I have
seen of the travelling, that had I not been encumbered by the sick
Wanyamwezi porters, I could have accomplished the distance in
sixteen days.
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