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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Northward From Magala Cape The Lake
Streamed Away Between Two Chains Of Mountains; Both Meeting In A
Point About Thirty Miles North Of Us.
The Warundi of Magala were very civil, and profound starers.
They
flocked around the tent door, and most pertinaciously gazed on us,
as if we were subjects of most intense interest, but liable to
sudden and eternal departure. The Mutware came to see us late in
the afternoon, dressed with great pomp. He turned out to be a boy
whom I had noticed in the crowd of gazers for his good looks and
fine teeth, which he showed, being addicted to laughing
continually. There was no mistaking him, though he was now
decorated with many ivory ornaments, with necklaces, and with
heavy brass bracelets and iron wire anklets. Our admiration of
him was reciprocated; and, in return for our two doti of cloth and
a fundo of samsam, he gave a fine fat and broad-tailed sheep,
and a pot of milk. In our condition both were extremely acceptable.
At Magala we heard of a war raging between Mukamba, for whose
country we were bound, and Warumashanya, a Sultan of an adjoining
district; and we were advised that, unless we intended to assist
one of these chiefs against the other, it would be better for us to
return. But, as we had started to solve the problem of the Rusizi
River, such considerations had no weight with us.
On the eighth morning from leaving Ujiji we bade farewell to the
hospitable people of Magala, and set off for Mukamba's country,
which was in view.
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