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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About Thirty Still Remained Behind With Myself,
For Whom My Canoe Was To Return.
We all arrived safe at Ukaranga, though we got dangerously near
a herd of hippopotami.
The crossing of the wide mouth (the Liuche
being then in flood) was effected in about four hours.
The next day, in the same order as on our departure from Ujiji,
we pursued our way south, the lake party keeping as closely as
possible to the shore, yet, when feasible, wind and weather
permitting, we struck off boldly across the numerous small bays
which indent the shores of the Tanganika. The shores were
beautifully green, the effect of the late rains; the waters of
the lake were a faithful reflex of the blue firmament above.
The hippopotami were plentiful. Those noticed on this day were
coloured with reddish rings round the base of their ears and on the
neck. One monster, coming up rather late, was surprised by the
canoe making full for him, and in great fright took a tremendous
dive which showed the whole length of his body. Half way between
the mouth of the Malagarazi and that of the Liuche we saw a camp
on shore - that of Mohammed bin Gharib, a Msawahili, who figured
often in Livingstone's verbal narrative to me of his adventures
and travels as one of the kindest and best of the Moslems in
Central Africa. He appeared to me a kindly disposed man, with
a face seldom seen, having the stamp of an unusual characteristic
on it - that of sincerity.
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