How I found Livingstone : $b Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. LivingstoneStanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
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How I found Livingstone : $b Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone
Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
One thing is evident to me, and I believe to the Doctor, that Sir Samuel
Baker will have to curtail the Albert N'Yanza by one, if not two degrees
of latitude. That well-known traveller has drawn his lake far into the
territory of the Warundi, while Ruanda has been placed on the eastern
side; whereas a large portion of it, if not all, should be placed north
of what he has designated on his map as Usige. The information of such
an intelligent man as Ruhinga is not to be despised; for, if Lake Albert
came within a hundred miles of the Tanganika, he would surely have heard
of its existence, even if he had not seen it himself. Originally he came
from Mutumbi, and he has travelled from that country into Mugihewa, the
district he now governs. He has seen Mwezi, the great King of Urundi,
and describes him as a man about forty years old, and as a very good
man.
Our work was now done; there was nothing more to detain us at Mugihewa.
Ruhinga had been exceedingly kind, and given us one ox after another to
butcher and eat. Mukamba had done the same. Their women had supplied us
with an abundance of milk and butter, and we had now bounteous supplies
of both.
The Doctor had taken a series of observations for latitude and
longitude; and Mugihewa was made out to be in 3 degrees 19 minutes S.
latitude.
On the 7th December, early in the morning, we left Mugihewa, and rowing
past the southern extremity of the Katangara Islands, we approached the
highlands of Uashi near the boundary line between Mukamba's country and
Uvira. The boundary line is supposed to be a wide ravine, in the depths
of which is a grove of tall, beautiful, and straight-stemmed trees, out
of which the natives make their canoes.
Passing Kanyamabengu River, which issues into the lake close to the
market-ground of Kirabula, the extreme point of Burton and Speke's
explorations of the Tanganika, we steered south along the western shore
of the lake for half an hour longer to Kavimba, where we halted to cook
breakfast.
The village where lived Mruta, the King of Uvira, was in sight of our
encampment, and as we observed parties of men ascending and descending
the mountains much more often than we thought augured good to ourselves,
we determined to continue on our course south. Besides, there was a
party of disconsolate-looking Wajiji here, who had been plundered only a
few days before our arrival, for attempting, as the Wavira believed, to
evade the honga payment. Such facts as these, and our knowledge of the
general state of insecurity in the country, resulting from the many wars
in which the districts of the Tanganika were engaged, determined us not
to halt at Kavimba.
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