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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Large
Herds Of Cattle Are Reared On It; For Where The Ground Is Not
Covered With Marshy Plants It Produces Rich, Sweet Grass.
The sheep
and goats, especially the former, are always in good condition; and
though they are not to be compared with English or American sheep,
they are the finest I have seen in Africa.
Numerous villages are
seen on this land because the intervening spaces are not occupied
with the rank and luxuriant jungle common in other parts of Africa.
Were it not for the Euphorbia kolquall of Abyssinia - which some
chief has caused to be planted as a defence round the villages -
one might see from one end of Mugihewa to the other. The waters
along the head of the lake, from the western to the eastern shores,
swarm with crocodiles. From the banks, I counted ten heads of
crocodiles, and the Rusizi, we were told, was full of them.
Ruhinga, who came to see us soon after we had taken up our quarters
in his village, was a most amiable man, who always contrived to see
something that excited his risibility; though older by five or
six years perhaps - he said he was a hundred years old - than Mukamba,
he was not half so dignified, nor regarded with so much admiration
by his people as his younger brother. Ruhinga had a better
knowledge, however, of the country than Mukamba, and an admirable
memory, and was able to impart his knowledge of the country
intelligently. After he had done the honours as chief to us -
presented us with an ox and a sheep, milk and honey - we were not
backward in endeavouring to elicit as much information as possible
out of him.
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