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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By-And-By, A Few Miles South Of The Base Of This
Ridge (Which I Call Kasera, From The Country
Which it cuts in
halves), these several ravines converge and debouch into the broad,
[marshy?], oozy, spongy "river" of Usense,
Which trends in a
south-easterly direction; after which, gathering the contents of
the watercourses from the north and northeast into its own broader
channel, it soon becomes a stream of some breadth and consequence,
and meets a river flowing from the east, from the direction of
Urori, with which it conflows in the Rikwa Plain, and empties about
sixty rectilineal miles further west into the Tanganika Lake. The
Rungwa River, I am informed, is considered as a boundary line
between the country of Usowa on the north, and Ufipa on the south.
We had barely completed the construction of our camp defences when
some of the men were heard challenging a small party of natives
which advanced towards our camp, headed by a man who, from his
garb and head-dress, we knew was from Zanzibar. After interchanging
the customary salutations, I was informed that this party was an
embassy from Simba ("Lion"), who ruled over Kasera, in Southern
Unyamwezi. Simba, I was told, was the son of Mkasiwa, King of
Unyanyembe, and was carrying on war with the Wazavira, of whom I was
warned to beware. He had heard such reports of my greatness that he
was sorry I did not take his road to Ukawendi, that he might have
had the opportunity of seeing me, and making friends with me; but
in the absence of a personal visit Simba had sent this embassy to
overtake me, in the hope that I would present him with a token of
my friendship in the shape of cloth.
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