. 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. THK high places OF THE SPIRIT MTOMBWA : VIEW of MTOMBWA UKUNUU. [To face page 28. 1876.] THE ABODE OF THE SPIRITS OF THE STOllM. 29 the cliffy heights risiug in terraces one above another; eachterrace-ledge is marked by a thin line of scrubby Kateye, the grey front of the paternal Kapem])walooms up with an extraordinary height and massivegrandeur. From KapemT)vva to Polombwe Cape the plateau mergesin a cliff-crowned wall 1500 f
. 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. THK high places OF THE SPIRIT MTOMBWA : VIEW of MTOMBWA UKUNUU. [To face page 28. 1876.] THE ABODE OF THE SPIRITS OF THE STOllM. 29 the cliffy heights risiug in terraces one above another; eachterrace-ledge is marked by a thin line of scrubby Kateye, the grey front of the paternal Kapem])walooms up with an extraordinary height and massivegrandeur. From KapemT)vva to Polombwe Cape the plateau mergesin a cliff-crowned wall 1500 feet above the lake. The cliffitself is probably 200 feet high, rising above a slope bristlingwith great rocks half hidden by the verdure of trees, bush,and grass. Yet the natives cultivate some part, and theirfields were seen far up the steep ascending KAPEMBWA. July 6.—On the 6th we left the neighbourhood ofPolombwe, at a place called Umisepa, and rowed roundinto the Rufuvu river. This river is about 400 yards wide, and retains thatwidth for about three miles—flowing with a current of aknot an hour, and between lofty wood-clothed mountains—and then broadens out into a lake-like expanse nearly a milewide. From the right or south bank of the river, a plainslopes gradually to the grand cliffy walls of here to Liende village, where we camped, our courselay east-south-east. Here, as elsewhere, the water has encroached upon the 30 THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. [1876. soil, and has flooded a large portion of land formerly devotedto tillage. It is a populous spot, indeed the most populouswe had seen since leaving Ujiji. Our reception by thepeople was most cordial, and 1 was not sorry to becomeacquainted with such gentle creatures. Not one angry wordor insolent look was exchanged, l)ut they visited us with thegreatest conf
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