Ten years in Equatoria; . THE HAXQUET AT liACAMOVO. WISSMANNS LIEUTENANT. 439 Mokondokua. Great acacias, white trunks of Biittncriacccc and tliePalma dum, ^vwQ a gracious and imposing aspect to the region. At first the spaces under cultivation are small, but they go onaugmenting with the extension of the valley, and fine plantationsof bananas, fields of grain, and verdant meadows abound on thedeclivities that descend gently to the plain. The dwellings of the natives of Muini Usagara are formed ofhuts with conical roofs ; the villages are generally placed togetherin the recesses of the valleys
Ten years in Equatoria; . THE HAXQUET AT liACAMOVO. WISSMANNS LIEUTENANT. 439 Mokondokua. Great acacias, white trunks of Biittncriacccc and tliePalma dum, ^vwQ a gracious and imposing aspect to the region. At first the spaces under cultivation are small, but they go onaugmenting with the extension of the valley, and fine plantationsof bananas, fields of grain, and verdant meadows abound on thedeclivities that descend gently to the plain. The dwellings of the natives of Muini Usagara are formed ofhuts with conical roofs ; the villages are generally placed togetherin the recesses of the valleys and on the hills amidst the the 20th of November we left the high mountains behind usand entered a beautiful and vast plain, charmingly planted and. I!()Y((, MIlEIiK EMIX fi ACCIDENT OCCUUKEI). shaded by umbelliferous trees and palms, and inhabited bynumerous antelopes and gazelles, and next day, by a wood ofpalms and over a country that begins to present dunes of sand, wearrived at the river ]Mkate, rapid in its course, and scattered withlarge stones. Mrogoro, the altitude of which is M21 feet (4-33 metres) opensthe plain of the Irrengere, where chief Kinga dwells, an intelliirentyoung man. The French missionaries have made a lovely dwellingfor themselves on a spur that projects like a terrace from themountain, and have there a garden charming from the riches andvariety of the plants cultivated in it. By Simbamueni and ]\Iikese—through green woods and followingthe crests of a series of beautiful hills—we arrived at the riverIrrengere, Mhich, after having received the waters of the Mrogoro, 440 TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA. falls into the Kingani. The land is transformed Ijy slightly markedundulations, partly covered by grass
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