Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 2 (of 2)Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Africa, East -- Description and travel; Ethnology -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar; Zanzibar -- Description and travel
Mvo is the Mvubu of the Kafir tongues: here the generally used term
for the Hippopotamus is Kiboko. I agree with the Rev. Mr Wakefield (p.
307), that the diminutive forms, Kiboko, plural Viboko (Viboko-ni, p.
316), are preferred to the root-name Boko, plural Maboko. It may,
however, be doubted if Boko, like Lima, be not the intensitive of
Mboko and Mlima, a hippopotamus and a mountain.
Footnote 24:
Mr Wakefield (J. R. G. Society for 1870, p. 304) gives 11 marches: of
these, however, 4 are 12 hour marches, 2 are of 8 hours, 1 is of 7
hours, and 4 are of 6 hours.
Footnote 25:
The following is a native list of the stages between Tanga and Chaga:
I leave it as written in 1857, and the reader will find the first part
almost identical with Mr Wakefield’s Route No. 1. I was surprised to
see the coincidence.
1. Tanga to Bwetti: 1 whole day (others say two), through the Wadigo
and Wasegeju jungle to a stream.
2. Dongo Khundu (red earth): half a day to a day, path straight easy
through the Wasegeju and Wadigo.
3. The Umba river: 1 day of jungle march.
4. The Mto Mchanga (Sand river): 1 day of wilderness march.
5. Mbaramo in the Usumbara country, many streams: 1 day’s march. The
hill belongs to King Kimwere’s sons, and some make it the 3rd station.
6. Gonja in the Pare country: 1 long day, the men generally dividing
it and sleeping in a jungle. Water is found flowing from a hill.
7. Kisiwa-ni in Pare: 1 day jungle march.
8. Sáme, at end of Pare: 1 day of jungle.
9. The Upo-ni river in the Wakwafi country, where robbers are feared:
men sleeping in the jungle 2 days.
10. The Rufu, or Upper Panga-ni river, whose banks are here woody, and
whose crocodile-haunted waters must be crossed in boats: 2 days. Here
is the Mhiná-ni station.
The Chaga road does not cross the stream, but runs northward with the
following stages, which are not mentioned by Mr Wakefield.
1. Mhina-ni to Arusha, a populous agricultural country: 1 day.
2. Kiboko-ni on left bank of Panga-ni river: 1 day of desert march.
3. Kahe Water of the Wakahe people: 1 long day, generally made 2, the
people sleeping in the jungle.
4. Chaga: 1 to 2 days under similar circumstances; water, however, is
found at night.
The caravans are of course armed and ready to fight: they march from
sunrise to 11 A.M., and from mid afternoon to sunset—sometimes a
forced march compels them to walk all day. The porters carry about 1½
Farsaleh. These details serve to prove that there are many points by
which the European traveller can more or less safely enter the
interior.
Footnote 26:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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