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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GLOSSARY.

Boma .  .  .  .  .  .  .   enclosure.

Bubu .  .  .  .  .  .  .   black beads.

Diwan   .  .  .  .  .  .   elder, chief, or magistrate - Page 304
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Your most obedient humble servant,

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GLOSSARY.

Boma . . . . . . . enclosure.

Bubu . . . . . . . black beads.

Diwan . . . . . . elder, chief, or magistrate.

Doti . . . . . . four yards of cloth.

Dowa . . . . . . medicine.

Fundo . . . . . . ten necklaces, or ten khetes.

Ghulabio . . . . . a species of bead.

Hafde . . . . . a species of bead.

Hamal . . . . . carrier.

Honga . . . . . tribute.

Ismahili . . . . . a native name for a particular kind of cloth.

Kadunguru . . . . . a brick-coloured species of bead.

Kaif-Halek . . . . "How do you do?"

Kaniki . . . . a blue cloth manufactured in India.

Knambi . . . . camp.

Khete . . . . one necklace, or a tenth of a fundo.

Kichuma-chuma . . . "Little Irons," a disease of the liver.

Kirangozi . . . . guide.

Kitambi . . . . a cloth.

Kiti . . . . . stool.

Lakhio . . . . . a pink-coloured species of bead.

Lunghio . . . . . blue beads.

Lunghio mbamba . . . small blue beads.

Lunghio rega . . . large blue beads.

M . . . . . a prefix to denote a person of any country as M-jiji, a native of Jiji.

Manyapara . . . . elder, or sub-chief.

Matama . . . . . Holcus sorghum, or the Arabic dourra.

Mbembu . . . . . forest peach

Merikani . . . . . unbleached domestics manufactured in America.

Mganga . . . . . a medicine man, or magic doctor,

Miezi-Mungu . . . . a Kisawahili term for "God."

Mtemi . . . . a term synonymous with king

Mtoni . . . . . nullah.

Muhongo . . . . . tribute.

Mulungu . . . . . a native term for "God."

Mukunguru . . . . intermittent fever.

Mvuha . . . . . thunder.

Ngombe . . . . . a cow.

Pagazi . . . . . a porter, or carrier.

Posho . . . . . food.

Sami-Sami . . . . the name of red beads

Shamba . . . . . a field.

Shasr . . . . . a muslin cloth.

Sheikh . . . . . a title of courtesy given to an elderly man.

Shukka . . . . . two yards of cloth.

Sohari . . . . . a kind of coloured cloth.

Sungomazzi . . . . large glass or china beads of the size of marbles.

Toujiri . . . . . the name for a particular kind of cloth.

U . . . . . a prefix to denote the country: thus U-jiji signifies the country of Jiji.

Uganga . . . . . medicine.

Wa- . . . . . a prefix to denote persons: thus Wa-jiji would signify people of Jiji.

Washeni . . . . . a term of contempt applied to the natives.

Yambo . . . . . "How are you?"

Ziwa . . . . . a pool, or lake,

Ziwari . . . . . a pond.

APPENDIX.

List of Camps from Bagamoyo to Ujiji and back to the Sea.

THROUGH UKWERE, UKAMI, AND UDOE TO USEGUHHA.

From Bagamoyo to - h. m. Shamba Gonera . . . 1 30 Kikoka . . . . . 3 40 Rosako . . . . . 5 0 Kingaru . . . . 6 0 Imbiki . . . . . 4 30 Msuwa . . . . . 4 30

From Msuwa to - h. m. Kisemo . . . . . 4 30 Mussoudi . . . . 4 20 Mikeseh . . . . 7 0 Muhalleh . . . . 6 45 Simbamwenni . . . 3 0

TO UGOGO.

USEGUHA, Ungerengeri River to - h. m Simbo . . . . . 2 0 Camp in plain . . . 4 10 Makata River . . . 2 30

USAGARA. Camp west of Makata. 0 5 Camp in plain . . . 4 30 Camp " " . . . 2 0 Rehenneko . . . . 3 15 Rehenneko to - h. m. Camp on mountain . . 3 30 Kiora . . . . . 3 40 Camp on river . . . 4 50 Madete . . . . . 2 30 Lake Ugombo. . . . 3 0 Matamombo . . . . 6 0 Mpwapwa . . . . . 7 0 Kisokweh . . . . 2 0 Chunyo . . . . . 1 30

FROM UGOGO TO UNYANYEMBE,

From Marenga Mkali to - h. m. Mvumi, Little Ugogo 12 30 Mvumi, Great Ugogo 4 0 Matamburu " " . 4 0 Bihawana " " . 4 0 Kididimo " " . 2 0 Pembera Pereh " . 10 0 Mizanza " " . 5 30 Mukondoku " " . 6 30 Munieka " " . 5 0 Mabunguru Mtoni . Uyanzi 8 0 Kiti, Uyanzi . . . 6 30 Msalalo . . . . 6 30

From Msalalo to - h. m. Welled Ngaraiso . . 3 30 Kusuri . . . . . 3 15 Mgongo Tembo . . . 3 30 " " Mtoni . 3 30 Nghwhalah Mtoni . . 2 40 Madedita . . . 2 30 Central Tura, Unyam- wezi . . . . 3 0 Kwala River . . . 7 0 Rubuga . . . . 7 15 Kigwa . . . . 5 0 Shiza . . . . 7 0 Kwihara . . . . 3 0

UNYANYEMBE TO MRERA, UKONONG0.

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