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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We Were Now On The Borders Of Uyanzi, Or, As It Is Better Known,
"Magunda Mkali " - The Hot-Ground, Or Hot-Field.
We had passed the
village populated by Wagogo, and were about to shake the dust of
Ugogo from our feet.
We had entered Ugogo full of hopes, believing
it a most pleasant land - a land flowing with milk and honey. We
had been grievously disappointed; it proved to be a land of gall
and bitterness, full of trouble and vexation of spirit, where
danger was imminent at every step - where we were exposed to the
caprice of inebriated sultans. Is it a wonder, then, that all
felt happy at such a moment? With the prospect before us of
what was believed by many to be a real wilderness, our ardor
was not abated, but was rather strengthened. The wilderness
in Africa proves to be, in many instances, more friendly than
the populated country. The kirangozi blew his kudu horn much
more merrily on this morning than he was accustomed to do while
in Ugogo. We were about to enter Magunda Mkali. At 9 A.M.,
three hours after leaving Munieka, and two hours since we had
left the extreme limits of Ugogo, we were halted at Mabunguru
Nullah. The Nullah runs southwesterly after leaving its source in
the chain of hills dividing Ugogo from Magunda Mkali. During the
rainy season it must be nearly impassable, owing to the excessive
slope of its bed. Traces of the force of the torrent are seen in
the syenite and basalt boulders which encumber the course.
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