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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A Nearer View Dispelled The Illusion,
And Proved It To Be A Huge Cube Of Rock, Measuring About Forty
Feet Each Way.
The baobabs were also particularly conspicuous on
this scene, no other kind of tree being visible in the cultivated
parts.
These had probably been left for two reasons: first, want
of proper axes for felling trees of such enormous growth;
secondly, because during a famine the fruit of the baobab furnishes
a flour which, in the absence of anything better, is said to be
eatable and nourishing.
The first words I heard in Ugogo were from a Wagogo elder, of
sturdy form, who in an indolent way tended the flocks, but showed
a marked interest in the stranger clad in white flannels, with a
Hawkes' patent cork solar topee on his head, a most unusual thing
in Ugogo, who came walking past him, and there were "Yambo, Musungu,
Yambo, bana, bana," delivered with a voice loud enough to make
itself heard a full mile away. No sooner had the greeting
been delivered than the word "Musungu" seemed to electrify his
entire village; and the people of other villages, situated at
intervals near the road, noting the excitement that reigned at
the first, also participated in the general frenzy which seemed
suddenly to have possessed them. I consider my progress from the
first village to Mvumi to have been most triumphant; for I was
accompanied by a furious mob of men, women, and children, all
almost as naked as Mother Eve when the world first dawned upon her
in the garden of Eden, fighting, quarrelling, jostling, staggering
against each other for the best view of the white man, the like of
whom was now seen for the first time in this part of Ugogo.
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