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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From Hamed's They Proceeded To Hassan's Camp (One
Of The Arab Servants), Where They Were Successful Enough To Reach
And
Lay hold of a couple of bales; but, unfortunately, they made
a noise, which awoke the vigilant and quick-eared
Slave, who
snatched his loaded musket, and in a moment had shot one of them
through the heart. Such were our experiences of the Wakimbu of
Tura.
On the 18th the three caravans, Hamed's, Hassan's, and my own,
left Tura by a road which zig-zagged towards all points through
the tall matama fields. In an hour's time we had passed Tura
Perro, or Western Tura, and had entered the forest again, whence
the Wakimbu of Tura obtain their honey, and where they excavate
deep traps for the elephants with which the forest is said to
abound. An hour's march from Western Tura brought us to a ziwa,
or pond. There were two, situated in the midst of a small open
mbuga, or plain, which, even at this late season, was yet soft
from the water which overflows it during the rainy season.
After resting three hours, we started on the terekeza,
or afternoon march.
It was one and the same forest that we had entered soon after
leaving Western Tura, that we travelled through until we reached
the Kwala Mtoni, or, as Burton has misnamed it on his map, "Kwale."
The water of this mtoni is contained in large ponds, or deep
depressions in the wide and crooked gully of Kwala.
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