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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I Could Not Possibly
Leave Him At Kiora, Death Would Soon Overtake Him There; But How
Long I Could Convey A Man In Such A State, Through A Country
Devoid Of Carriage, Was A Question To Be Resolved By Circumstances.
On the 11th of May, the third and fifth caravans, now united,
followed up the right bank of the Mukondokwa, through fields of
holcus, the great Mukondokwa ranges rising in higher altitude as
we proceeded west, and enfolding us in the narrow river valley round
about.
We left Muniyi Usagara on our right, and soon after found
hill-spurs athwart our road, which we were obliged to ascend and
descend.
A march of eight miles from the ford of Misonghi brought us to
another ford of the Mukondokwa, where we bid a long adieu to
Burton's road, which led up to the Goma pass and up the steep
slopes of Rubeho. Our road left the right bank and followed the
left over a country quite the reverse of the Mukondokwa Valley,
enclosed between mountain ranges. Fertile soils and spontaneous
vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour,
we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and
cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew
paramount.
Instead of the tree-clad heights, slopes and valleys, instead of
cultivated fields, we saw now the confines of uninhabited wilderness.
The hill-tops were bared of their bosky crowns, and revealed their
rocky natures bleached white by rain and sun.
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