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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He Presented Me With
A Goat; And A Goatskin Full Of Rice; A Most Acceptable Gift In A
Place Where A Goat Costs Five Cloths.
After a day's halt at Rubuga, during which I despatched soldiers
to notify Sheikh Sayd bin Salim and Sheikh bin Nasib, the two chief
dignitaries of Unyanyembe, of my coming, on the 21st of June we
resumed the march for Kigwa, distant five hours.
The road ran
through another forest similar to that which separated Tura from
Rubuga, the country rapidly sloping as we proceeded westward.
Kigwa we found to have been visited by the same vengeance which
rendered Rubuga such a waste.
The next day, after a three and a half hours' rapid march, we
crossed the mtoni - which was no mtoni - separating Kigwa from
Unyanyembe district, and after a short halt to quench our thirst,
in three and a half hours more arrived at Shiza. It was a most
delightful march, though a long one, for its picturesqueness of
scenery which every few minutes was revealed, and the proofs we
everywhere saw of the peaceable and industrious disposition of the
people. A short half hour from Shiza we beheld the undulating
plain wherein the Arabs have chosen to situate the central depot
which commands such wide and extensive field of trade. The
lowing of cattle and the bleating of the goats and sheep were
everywhere heard, giving the country a happy, pastoral aspect.
The Sultan of Shiza desired me to celebrate my arrival in
Unyanyembe, with a five-gallon jar of pombe, which he brought
for that purpose.
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