Ten years in Equatoria; . .i ?* ^ .^3^^-^. MEETING AVITII MAJOK WISSJtANX. Wissmann, placed himself at the disposal of Emiu l*asha. On the12th November, early in the morning, the column commenced itsmarch, preceded by Lieutenant Schmidt and iiis Soudanese soldiers,the German banner in the vanguard. A rich and fertile country, with abundance of water, rejoicingin verdant pastures and shady trees, made delightful by thebalsamic air of the mountains, with inhabitants of gentle andkindly manners—this is Usagara. The chain of mountains that extended before us in a semicircledescends to the plain by


Ten years in Equatoria; . .i ?* ^ .^3^^-^. MEETING AVITII MAJOK WISSJtANX. Wissmann, placed himself at the disposal of Emiu l*asha. On the12th November, early in the morning, the column commenced itsmarch, preceded by Lieutenant Schmidt and iiis Soudanese soldiers,the German banner in the vanguard. A rich and fertile country, with abundance of water, rejoicingin verdant pastures and shady trees, made delightful by thebalsamic air of the mountains, with inhabitants of gentle andkindly manners—this is Usagara. The chain of mountains that extended before us in a semicircledescends to the plain by a series of minor hei<ihts, forming first thevalleys of the Dambi, Kidete, and Mokondokua, the principalriver of this region. The way, sharj) and difficult, opens over thespurs of the chain, amongst bushes and woods shutting in thevalley, which grows larger where the Siniba pours itself into the


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