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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The Next Morning, Having Recovered Slightly From The Fever, When
Mukamba Came With A Present Of An Ox, A Sheep, And A Goat, I Was
Able To Attend To The Answers Which He Gave To The Questions About
The Rusizi River And The Head Of The Lake.
The ever cheerful and
enthusiastic Mgwana was there also, and he was not a whit abashed,
when, through him,
The chief told us that the Rusizi, joined by
the Ruanda, or Luanda, at a distance of two days' journey by
water, or one day by land from the head of the lake, flowed INTO
the lake.
Thus our hopes, excited somewhat by the positive and repeated
assurances that the river flowed out away towards Karagwah,
collapsed as speedily as they were raised.
We paid Mukamba the honga, consisting of nine doti and nine fundo
of samsam, lunghio, muzurio n'zige. The printed handkerchiefs,
which I had in abundance at Unyanyembe, would have gone well here.
After receiving his present, the chief introduced his son, a tall
youth of eighteen or thereabouts, to the Doctor, as a would-be son
of the Doctor; but, with a good-natured laugh, the Doctor scouted
all such relationship with him, as it was instituted only for the
purpose of drawing more cloth out of him. Mukamba took it in good
part, and did not insist on getting more.
Our second evening at Mukamba's, Susi, the Doctor's servant, got
gloriously drunk, through the chief's liberal and profuse gifts
of pombe.
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