. 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. date of discovery, which will no doubt be religiouslypreserved by the natives as a memento of the white man andhis people who escaped being eaten while passing throughtheir country. Two miles below we came to some rocky straits and theten islets of Kabombo. The current ran through these atthe rate of about five knots an hour, but, excepting a few 1877.] FiailTING THE WANA-RUKURA. 189 eddies, there was nothing to render the passage difficul
. 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. date of discovery, which will no doubt be religiouslypreserved by the natives as a memento of the white man andhis people who escaped being eaten while passing throughtheir country. Two miles below we came to some rocky straits and theten islets of Kabombo. The current ran through these atthe rate of about five knots an hour, but, excepting a few 1877.] FiailTING THE WANA-RUKURA. 189 eddies, there was nothing to render the passage to this point the course of the great river had beennorth-east, north-north-east, and east-north-east, l)ut belowit sheered to north. On our right now l)egan tiie largecountry of Koruru, and on our left Yambarri.* We descended rapidly for two miles down the river, hereabout two thousand yards wide, after which the hoarsemurmur of falls was again heard. Our cannibal guideswarned us not to venture near the left l)ank, and, relyingon their information, we approached the Sixth Cataract alongthe right bank, and camped not four hundred yards from an. CAVERN, NEAR KABOMBO ISLANDS. island densely inhabited by a tribe of the Waregga calledWana-Eukura. AVe here released our cannibal guides, and surrenderedtheir weapons to them. They availed themselves of theirliberty by instantly running along the river bank up theriver. We were not long left unmolested in our junglecamp, for while we were still engaged in constructing astockade, war-cries, horns, and drums announced the approachof the ever-fierce aborigines ; and in a short time we werehotly engaged. In an hour we had driven them them up rapidly a little distance we came to a * Colonel Long, of the Egyjitian army, on his ?(vay to the Nyam-Nvamconn ry, in 1871, met with a tribe called the Yanbari, iu about 5^ north,latitrde. 190 THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. [1877. large village, where we discovered three or four wome
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