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Title: Scouting for Stanley in East Africa
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Stevens, Thomas, 1855-
Subjects: Africa, East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Cassell publishing company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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us here, notwithstanding theirridiculous fears of the Masai. We had no idea how far it was nor how difficultmight be the way. It turned out to be up hill anddown dale for many trying miles, through bananaplantations of astonishing area and across clear, coldmountain streams that nearly swept us ofif our feet.It was a much longer distance than we had expected.The paths, moreover, after a drizzling night were slip-pery as ice to the naked feet of the porters. But fiftyeager warriors, probably acting under orders from theirMange, ran ahead, and with the hilts of their spearsdug footholes in the steeper and more slippery places,helping us along all they could in this way. It is cus-tomary in Uganda, and I believe in Unyoro also, forthe King to send porters and carry the travelersbaggage from the frontier of the country; but such isnot the custom among the chiefs of Kilimanjaro. Thewarriors of Machamc, though anxious to help us along,would laugh at the struggling porter as his feet slipped
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ViStT TO MACHAME. 75 from under him and his load came to grief. Theywould gouge a hole to give him footing, but were muchtoo proud to render him laborious aid. The country was lovely, a chaotic jumble of narrowhills and dales, the whole sloping gently up towardKibo and clothed with luxuriant vegetation of everyshade of green. Everywhere could be heard the musicof mountain streams coursing over rocky beds at thebottom of the canons, or leaping and tumbling overcataracts or down rapids. Between the banana planta-tions stood little patches of primeval forest, and aboutthem, so characteristic of Chaga, were the charminglittle parks we have noted in Marangu. The grovesare believed to be peopled with the shades of theirancestors, and votive offerings are placed before thetrees. Irrigating ditches were everywhere, and narrow lanesof draCcEna hedges divided the plantations. Much wetweather had converted these lanes into gutters ofvery slippery mud, in which many a porter sat downvery abruptly

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