. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . road leadingeast of south over the plain. In about an hour thelevel flat assumed a rolling character freely sprinkledover with bush clumps and a few trees. An hours ex-perience of this kind brought us to the base of the firstline of hills, thence up one ascent after another until noon,when we halted at Kitete, having gained a thousandfeet of altitude. We were received kindly, and welcomedin the name of the King Antari. Messengers had A WELCOME JN ANKORL 361 arrived almost simultaneously from Masakuma, theG
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . road leadingeast of south over the plain. In about an hour thelevel flat assumed a rolling character freely sprinkledover with bush clumps and a few trees. An hours ex-perience of this kind brought us to the base of the firstline of hills, thence up one ascent after another until noon,when we halted at Kitete, having gained a thousandfeet of altitude. We were received kindly, and welcomedin the name of the King Antari. Messengers had A WELCOME JN ANKORL 361 arrived almost simultaneously from Masakuma, theGovernor of the Lake Province of Ankori, that we shouldbe received with all hospitality and honour, and broughtby degrees to him. Consequently, such is the power ofemissaries from authority, the villagers were ordered outof their houses with cries of Room for the guests ofAntari 1 Room for the friends of Masukuma! Ha,villains, dont you hear ? Out with you, bag andbaggage! and so forth, the messengers every nowand then taking sly glances at us to note if we admired 4. Kiteti. A VILLAGE IN ANKORL the style of the thing. We had not been long inAnkori before we grasped the situation was the kings property. The people we shouldhave to deal with were only the governors, calledWakungu, and the king, his mother, brothers, sisters,uncles, aunts, &c. Ankori was a copy of Uganda. From Kitete a considerable portion of the south-eastextremity of Lake Albert Edward appeared in were a thousand feet above it. The sun shonestrongly, and for once we obtained about a ten-mile view 362 IN DAEKEST AFRICA. 1889. through the mist. From 312^° to 324° masjnetic, the^^^- flats below were penetrated withlong-reachino; in-lets of the lake,surrounding; num-bers of little lowislets. To I7i°magnetic roseNsinda Mountain,2500 feet abovethe lake; and be-hind, at the dis-tance of threemiles, rose therange of Kinya-magara ; and onthe eastern sideof a deep valleyseparating it
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