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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Sometimes We Sighted A Canoe
A Short Distance Ahead Of Us; Whereupon Our Men, With Song And
Chorus, Would Exert
Themselves to the utmost to overtake it.
Upon observing our efforts, the natives would bend themselves to
their tasks, and
Paddling standing and stark naked, give us ample
opportunities for studying at our leisure comparative anatomy.
Or we saw a group of fishermen lazily reclining in _puris naturalibus_
on the beach, regarding with curious eye the canoes as they passed
their neighbourhood; then we passed a flotilla of canoes, their
owners sitting quietly in their huts, busily plying the rod and
hook, or casting their nets, or a couple of men arranging their
long drag nets close in shore for a haul; or children sporting
fearlessly in the water, with their mothers looking on approvingly
from under the shade of a tree, from which I infer that there are
not many crocodiles in the lake, except in the neighbourhood of
the large rivers.
After passing the low headland of Kisunwe, formed by the Kisunwe
River, we came in view of Murembwe Cape, distant about four or five
miles: the intervening ground being low land, a sandy and pebbly
beach. Close to the beach are scores of villages, while the
crowded shore indicates the populousness of the place beyond.
About half way between Cape Kisunwe and Murembwe, is a cluster of
villages called Bikari, which has a mutware who is in the habit of
taking honga. As we were rendered unable to cope for any length
of time with any mischievously inclined community, all villages
having a bad reputation with the Wajiji were avoided by us.
But even the Wajiji guides were sometimes mistaken, and led us
more than once into dangerous places.
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