. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. of the Acliatina monetaria,the black seeds of a species of plantain, and the crimsonberries of the Abnis precatorius; copper, iron, and wooden_ pellets. The houses were all of the gable-roofed pattern which we hadfirst noticed on the summit of thehills on which Riba-Ril^a, Manyema,is situate ; the shields of the Baswawere also after the same type. The vegetation of the islandconsisted of almost every varietyof plant and tree found in thisr
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. of the Acliatina monetaria,the black seeds of a species of plantain, and the crimsonberries of the Abnis precatorius; copper, iron, and wooden_ pellets. The houses were all of the gable-roofed pattern which we hadfirst noticed on the summit of thehills on which Riba-Ril^a, Manyema,is situate ; the shields of the Baswawere also after the same type. The vegetation of the islandconsisted of almost every varietyof plant and tree found in thisregion, and the banana, plantain,castor-oil, sugar-cane, cassava, andmaize fiourished; nor must theoil-palm be forgotten, for therewere great jars of its dark-redbutter in many houses. The grand problem now beforeme was how to steer clear of theBukumu savages of the left bank,whose shouts and fierce yells camepealing to our ears, and were heardeven above the roar and tremendouscrash of the cataract. As I travelled round the island, manydesperate ideas suggested themselves to me, and if I had beenfollowed by a hundred practised and daring men it might. STYLE OF KNIVES.
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