Where The Kingani Itself Rises, I Never Could
Find Out; Though I Have Heard That Its Sources Lies In A Gurgling
Spring On The Eastern Face Of The Mkambaku, By Which Account The
Mgeta Is Made The Longer Branch Of The Two.
Chapter III
Usagara
Nature of the Country - Resumption of the March - A Hunt - Bombay
and Baraka - The Slave-Hunters - The Ivory-Merchants - Collection of
Natural-History Specimens - A Frightened Village - Tracking a Mule.
Under U-Sagara, or, as it might be interpreted, U-sa-Gara -
country of Gara - is included all the country lying between the
bifurcation of the Kingani and Mgeta rivers east, and Ugogo, the
first country on the interior plateau west, - a distance of a
hundred miles. On the north it is bounded by the Mukondokua, or
upper course of the Wami river and on the south by the Ruaha, or
northern great branch of the Lufiji river. It forms a link of
the great East Coast Range; but though it is generally
comprehended under the single name Usagara, many sub-tribes
occupy and apply their own names to portions of it; as, for
instance, the people on whose ground we now stood at the foot of
the hills, are Wa-Khutu, and their possessions consequently are
U-Khutu, which is by far the best producing land hitherto alluded
to since leaving the sea-coast line. Our ascent by the river,
though quite imperceptible to the eye, has been 500 feet. From
this level the range before us rises in some places to 5000 to
6000 feet, not as one grand mountain, but in two detached lines,
lying at an angle of 45 degrees from N.E. to S.W., and separated
one from the other by elevated valleys, tables, and crab-claw
spurs of hill which incline towards the flanking rivers.
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