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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Soon After Passing The Boundary Between Urundi
Proper, And What Is Known As Usige, A Storm From The South-West
Arose; and the fearful yawing of our canoe into the wave trough
warned us from proceeding further; so we turned
Her head for Kisuka
village, about four miles north, where Mugere, in Usige, begins.
At Kisuka a Mgwana living with Mukamba came to see us, and gave us
details of the war between Mukamba and Warumashanya, from which it
seemed that these two chiefs were continually at loggerheads. It
is a tame way of fighting, after all. One chief makes a raid into
the other's country, and succeeds in making off with a herd of
cattle, killing one or two men who have been surprised. Weeks, or
perhaps months elapse before the other retaliates, and effects a
capture in a similar way, and then a balance is struck in which
neither is the gainer. Seldom do they attack each other with
courage and hearty goodwill, the constitution of the African
being decidedly against any such energetic warfare.
This Mgwana, further, upon being questioned, gave us information
far more interesting, viz., about the Rusizi. He told us
positively, with the air of a man who knew all about it, and as
if anybody who doubted him might well be set down as an egregious
ass, that the Rusizi River flowed out of the lake, away to Suna's
(Mtesa's) country. "Where else could it flow to?" he asked. The
Doctor was inclined to believe it, or, perhaps he was more inclined
to let it rest as stated until our own eyes should confirm it.
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