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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On One Of These, Veiled By An Impenetrable Jungle
Of Thorny Acacia, Rested Rosako; Girt Round By Its Natural
Fortification, Neighbouring Another Village To The North Of It
Similarly Protected.
Between them sank a valley extremely
fertile and bountiful in its productions, bisected by a small
stream, which serves as a drain to the valley or low hills
surrounding it.
Rosako is the frontier village of Ukwere, while Kikoka is the
north-western extremity of Uzaramo. We entered this village, and
occupied its central portion with our tents and animals. A
kitanda, or square light bedstead, without valance, fringe, or any
superfluity whatever, but nevertheless quite as comfortable as
with them, was brought to my tent for my use by the village
chief. The animals were, immediately after being unloaded,
driven out to feed, and the soldiers to a man set to work to pile
the baggage up, lest the rain, which during the Masika season
always appears imminent, might cause irreparable damage.
Among other experiments which I was about to try in Africa was
that of a good watch-dog on any unmannerly people who would
insist upon coming into my tent at untimely hours and endangering
valuables. Especially did I wish to try the effect of its bark
on the mighty Wagogo, who, I was told by certain Arabs, would
lift the door of the tent and enter whether you wished them or not;
who would chuckle at the fear they inspired, and say to you,
"Hi, hi, white man, I never saw the like of you before; are there
many more like you?
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