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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As We Were Leaving Tura, On The 21st, Susi And Hamoydah Were Sent
Back To The Doctor, With Last Words From Me, While We Continued Our
March To Nghwhalah River.
Two days afterwards we arrived before the village of Ngaraisa,
into which the head of the caravan attempted to enter but the
angry Wakimbu forcibly ejected them.
On the 24th, we encamped in the jungle, in what is called the
"tongoni," or clearing.
This region was at one period in a most flourishing state; the
soil is exceedingly fertile; the timber is large, and would be
valuable near the coast; and, what is highly appreciated in
Africa, there is an abundance of water. We camped near a smooth,
broad hump of syenite, at one end of which rose, upright and grand,
a massive square rock, which towered above several small trees in
the vicinity; at the other end stood up another singular rock,
which was loosened at the base.
The members of the Expedition made use of the great sheet of rock
to grind their grain; a common proceeding in these lands where
villages are not near, or when the people are hostile.
On the 27th of March we entered Kiwyeh. At dawn, when leaving
Mdaburu River, the solemn warning had been given that we were
about entering Ugogo; and as we left Kaniyaga village, with
trumpet-like blasts of the guide's horn, we filed into the depths
of an expanse of rustling Indian corn. The ears were ripe enough
for parching and roasting, and thus was one anxiety dispelled
by its appearance; for generally, in early March, caravans
suffer from famine, which overtakes both natives and strangers.
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