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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Mortality amongst the baggage animals. - The contumacious Wagogo -
Mobs of Maenads. - Tribute paying. - Necessity of prudence. - Oration
of the guide. - The genuine "Ugogians." - Vituperative power. - A
surprised chief. - The famous Mizanza. - Killing hyaenas. - The Greeks
and Romans of Africa. - A critical moment. - The "elephant's back." -
The wilderness of Ukimbu. - End of the first stage of the search. -
Arrival at Unyanyembe.
The 22nd of May saw Thani and Hamed's caravans united with my own
at Chunyo, three and a half hours' march from Mpwapwa. The road
from the latter place ran along the skirts of the Mpwapwa range;
at three or four places it crossed outlying spurs that stood
isolated from the main body of the range. The last of these hill
spurs, joined by an elevated cross ridge to the Mpwapwa, shelters
the tembe of Chunyo, situated on the western face, from the stormy
gusts that come roaring down the steep slopes. The water of Chunyo
is eminently bad, in fact it is its saline-nitrous nature which has
given the name Marenga Mkali - bitter water - to the wilderness which
separates Usagara from Ugogo. Though extremely offensive to the
palate, Arabs and the natives drink it without fear, and without
any bad results; but they are careful to withhold their baggage
animals from the pits. Being ignorant of its nature, and not
exactly understanding what precise location was meant by Marenga
Mkali, I permitted the donkeys to be taken to water, as usual
after a march; and the consequence was calamitous in the extreme.
What the fearful swamp of Makata had spared, the waters of
Marenga Mkali destroyed.
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