Ten years in Equatoria; . AKKA WOMAN (i-IGMy) the east, were raised to power more by the influence of the Donagla,the murderers of Munza, than by historical right, or by the peopleswish. Plebiscites are as yet unknown in Africa. We were in a region which was very dark on account of trees, AT BELLIMA. 67. MAMBETTIJ NEGRESS. and marshy and cold through the wet weather. At every step there were streams, unimportant with regard to their waters, but very difficult and troublesome to traverse in consequence of the numerous pools which they form. The ground rose gradually before us. The chief Azanga,
Ten years in Equatoria; . AKKA WOMAN (i-IGMy) the east, were raised to power more by the influence of the Donagla,the murderers of Munza, than by historical right, or by the peopleswish. Plebiscites are as yet unknown in Africa. We were in a region which was very dark on account of trees, AT BELLIMA. 67. MAMBETTIJ NEGRESS. and marshy and cold through the wet weather. At every step there were streams, unimportant with regard to their waters, but very difficult and troublesome to traverse in consequence of the numerous pools which they form. The ground rose gradually before us. The chief Azanga, brother ofGambari, invited me to a repast ofcrocodile flesh cooked with maniocleaves and most beautiful bananas,which he advised me to steep in avessel containing palm-oil. I was still too fresh to Africancustoms; the taste of musk was toopungent for me, and I confinedmyself to bananas. The small river Koquaro, whichis in the neighbourhood, is one ofthe tributaries of the river Gadda ;it is formed by the drainage fromthe hillocks, which gradually increase in height towards the Tinamountain, and flows south towards Gango, a village situated at thesource of the river Ubo, which pours its waters into the Dongu. At Bellima, May 18, 1881, I met Karbado, the son of Gambari,then temporarily ruling the
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