. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. DfAJiV. 220 ^Jarrh 1\st.—'!ViTil>Iy slow dny's work, only ^'i>i!i^ for some time at the into ot' one niilc an lioiir. We, stiiifol Ix'torc (layl)r('ak, and soon passed ten canoes CmU dt' iiKMi iVotn Kjissoijf^o, in cliarj^e ot" an Aral), liaeliid hen Serur. lie stopped and came into onr canoe, and told me lie did not know it' any of the men in tliem were for ns, hut that five ot" the canoos were for X/i}j;o. He (lid not know the nund)er of
. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. DfAJiV. 220 ^Jarrh 1\st.—'!ViTil>Iy slow dny's work, only ^'i>i!i^ for some time at the into ot' one niilc an lioiir. We, stiiifol Ix'torc (layl)r('ak, and soon passed ten canoes CmU dt' iiKMi iVotn Kjissoijf^o, in cliarj^e ot" an Aral), liaeliid hen Serur. lie stopped and came into onr canoe, and told me lie did not know it' any of the men in tliem were for ns, hut that five ot" the canoos were for X/i}j;o. He (lid not know the nund)er of men, and I conld not count them, as they were all mixed uj) with l)oys and women. He said that Tippn had sent an Aral) to Ijiji for men, and that h(» thouf^ht 'l'i))pii-'ril) would not IciiNc Kasson<ijo until after Uamadan, which is in May. The hank on our left is com])osed of sandstone rock, and very stee]). ^^'e ))assed numerous villajj^es, the natives of which wanted to exchan price of a canoe hein*;- one fjjnn. »Sonie of the ciiiioe landins. They arc clefts in the sandstone rock, with ste|)s worn or cut in them, risin<i: from a small open s|)ace at the water's cd^e, from which sj)rin^ «^iant-stemmed trees, with festoons of enormous creepers han};in<^ from them. The whole ])icture should lie in deej) shadow, with a streak of l)rid at AVonyakimhi, a village in charge of some of Tippu's Arabs, where I secured a hut, and passed a much better night than the last, although the mos- (juitoes were bad. ()p])()site the village lies a low, long, ^nass-covered island, with a number of hippopotami on it. March. ^'Ind.—Started at daybreak and reached A\'a- manga Ka))i(ls about VI o'clock. Here we ])assed three canoes full ol men from Kassongo, belonging to Tip})U- Til), but I. don't thiidv they were for us, as they w re most of them the white-shirted Tamba-'land)as. Pitrlied my tent and made a sketch of the ra})ids. The natives luTc w(>ar large ear-rings of semicii'c
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