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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A Beautiful
Park-Land Was Revealed To Us; But The Grass Was Very Tall, And
The Rainy Season, Which Had Commenced In Earnest, Made My Work
Excessively Disagreeable.
Through this tall grass, which was as
high as my throat, I had to force my way, compass in hand, to
lead the Expedition, as there was not the least sign of a road,
and we were now in an untravelled country.
We made our camp on
a beautiful little stream flowing north; one of the feeders of
the Rugufu River.
The 11th still saw me plunging through the grass, which showered
drops of rain on me every time I made a step forward. In two
hours we crossed a small stream, with slippery syenitic rocks in
its bed, showing the action of furious torrents. Mushrooms were
in abundance, and very large. In crossing, an old pagazi of
Unyamwezi, weather-beaten, uttered, in a deplorable tone, "My
kibuyu is dead;" by which he meant that he had slipped, and in
falling had broken his gourd, which in Kisawahili is "kibuyu."
On the eastern bank we halted for lunch, and, after an hour and
a half's march, arrived at another stream, which I took to be the
Mtambu, at first from the similarity of the land, though my map
informed me that it was impossible. The scenery around was very
similar, and to the north we had cited a similar tabular hill to
the "Magdala" Mount I had discovered north of Imrera, while going
to the Malagarazi.
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