Ten years in Equatoria; . MEETING AVITII MAJOK WISSJtANX. Wissmann, placed himself at the disposal of Emiu l*asha. On the12th November, early in the morning, the column commenced itsmarch, preceded by Lieutenant Schmidt and iiis Soudanese soldiers,the German banner in the vanguard. A rich and fertile country, with abundance of water, rejoicingin verdant pastures and shady trees, made delightful by thebalsamic air of the mountains, with inhabitants of gentle andkindly manners—this is Usagara. The chain of mountains that extended before us in a semicircledescends to the plain by a series of mino
Ten years in Equatoria; . MEETING AVITII MAJOK WISSJtANX. Wissmann, placed himself at the disposal of Emiu l*asha. On the12th November, early in the morning, the column commenced itsmarch, preceded by Lieutenant Schmidt and iiis Soudanese soldiers,the German banner in the vanguard. A rich and fertile country, with abundance of water, rejoicingin verdant pastures and shady trees, made delightful by thebalsamic air of the mountains, with inhabitants of gentle andkindly manners—this is Usagara. The chain of mountains that extended before us in a semicircledescends to the plain by a series of minor hei<ihts, forming first thevalleys of the Dambi, Kidete, and Mokondokua, the principalriver of this region. The way, sharj) and difficult, opens over thespurs of the chain, amongst bushes and woods shutting in thevalley, which grows larger where the Siniba pours itself into the. 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
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