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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From The Hill And Ridge Of Utende Sloped A Forest For Miles And
Miles Westerly, Which Was Terminated By A Grand And Smooth-Topped
Ridge Rising 500 Or 600 Feet Above The Plain.
A four hours' march, on the 12th of October, brought us to a
nullah similar to the Gombe, which, during the wet season, flows
to the Gombe River, and thence into the Malagarazi River.
A little before camping we saw a herd of nimba, or pallah; I had
the good fortune to shoot one, which was a welcome addition to our
fast diminishing store of dried meats, prepared in our camp on the
Gombe. By the quantity of bois de vaches, we judged buffaloes
were plentiful here, as well as elephant and rhinoceros. The
feathered species were well represented by ibis, fish-eagles,
pelicans, storks, cranes, several snowy spoon-bills, and
flamingoes.
From the nullah, or mtoni, we proceeded to Mwaru, the principal
village of the district of Mwaru, the chief of which is Ka-mirambo.
Our march lay over desolated clearings once occupied by Ka-mirambo's
people, but who were driven away by Mkasiwa some ten years ago,
during his warfare against Manwa Sera. Niongo, the brother of the
latter, now waging war against Mbogo, had passed through Mwaru the
day before we arrived, after being defeated by his enemy.
The hilly ridge that bounded the westward horizon, visible from
Utende, was surmounted on this day. The western slope trends
south-west, and is drained by the River Mrera, which empties into
the Malagarazi River.
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