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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Nature, Also - Proud, Wild Nature-0-With The Lofty Azure Dome
Upheaved Into Infinity - With Her Breadth And Depth Of Vivid
Greenness And Enormous Vastness On Our Left - With Her Immense
Sheet Of Bright, Glancing Water - With Her Awful And Intense
Serenity - She Partook Of And Added To Our Joy.
About 10 A.M. we arrived at Kirindo's, an old chief, noted for his
singular kindness to Dr. Livingstone, while he bore animosity to
the Arabs.
To the Arabs this was unaccountable - to the Doctor it
was plain: he had but spoken kind and sincere words, while all the
Arabs spoke to him as if he were not even a man, least of all a
chief.
Kirindo's place is at the mouth of the Liuche, which is very wide;
the river oozes out through a forest of eschinomenae (pith tree).
This was a rendezvous agreed upon between shore and lake parties,
that the canoes might all cross to the other side, distant a mile
and a half. The mouth of the Liuche forms the Bay of Ukaranga,
so named because on the other side, whither we were about to cross
our party, was situated the village of Ukaranga, a few hundred yards
from the lake. All the baggage was taken out of the largest canoe,
and stowed snugly in the smaller one, and a few select oarsmen
having taken seats, pushed off with the Doctor on board, who was
to superintend pitching the encampment at Ukaranga; while I remained
behind to bind the fractious and ill-natured donkeys, and stow
them away in the bottom of the large canoe, that no danger of
upsetting might be incurred, and a consequent gobbling-up by
hungry crocodiles, which were all about us waiting their opportunity.
The flock of goats were then embarked, and as many of our people
as could be got in.
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