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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Where Do You Come From?" Also Would They
Take Hold Of Your Watch And Ask You With A Cheerful Curiosity,
"What Is This For, White Man?" To Which You Of Course Would Reply
That It Was To Tell You The Hour And Minute.
But the Mgogo, proud
of his prowess, and more unmannerly than a brute, would answer you
with a snort of insult.
I thought of a watch-dog, and procured a
good one at Bombay not only as a faithful companion, but to
threaten the heels of just such gentry.
But soon after our arrival at Rosako it was found that the dog,
whose name was "Omar," given him from his Turkish origin, was
missing; he had strayed away from the soldiers during a
rain-squall and had got lost. I despatched Mabruki Burton back to
Kikoka to search for him. On the following morning, just as we
were about to leave Rosako, the faithful fellow returned with the
lost dog, having found him at Kikoka.
Previous to our departure on the morning after this, Maganga, chief
of the fourth caravan, brought me the unhappy report that three of
his pagazis were sick, and he would like to have some "dowa" -
medicine. Though not a doctor, or in any way connected with the
profession, I had a well-supplied medicine chest - without which no
traveller in Africa could live - for just such a contingency as was
now present. On visiting Maganga's sick men, I found one suffering
from inflammation of the lungs, another from the mukunguru (African
intermittent). They all imagined themselves about to die, and
called loudly for "Mama!" "Mama!" though they were all grown men.
It was evident that the fourth caravan could not stir that day, so
leaving word with Magauga to hurry after me as soon as possible, I
issued orders for the march of my own.
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