Identifier: africakeith00john (find matches)
Title: Africa
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Johnston, Keith, 1844-1879 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eater elevation than5100 feet above the sea-level. From its eastern limits toUrimi the plateau is overgrown with acacia thickets sodense as to stifle aU other vegetable growth. Nothingelse is seen but an occasional gigantic euphorbia in somerocky cleft as solitary lord of this sterile domain. Following up the footsteps of the explorers, the Churchand London Missionary Societies lost no time in foundingmission stations in this region of East Africa, and theirpioneer parties have been farther examining the routesand rivers which lead into the interior. Mr. Price, as wehave previously noted, has made a great advance in takingbullock-waggons from the coast inland to Ugogo, by aroute which is free from the tsetze fly, thereby doingaway with the necessity for native porters ; and a ChurchMission party, of which Lieutenant Shergold Smith andthe Eev. C. T. Wilson were members, left Bagamoyoin July 1876 and, almost following in Stanleys tracks,arrived at Kagehyi in January 1877. From here they
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KALULU, Stanleys faithful Youxg Companion. To face itage 310. At Unyanyembe, in September 1871, an Arab presented Mr. Stanley with a little slave boy,named Ndugu .Mhali = my brothers wealth; but he was re-named Ka-lu-!ii, which isKisuaheli for the young of the blue-buck. He came to England with iMr. Stanley, and wasat school there for more tlian a year. He was lost in one of the furious cataracts of theLower Congo, in Mr. Stanleys latest expe.lition. EQUATORIAL LAKE EEGIONS. 317 crossed the lake and were cordially received by KingMtesa on July 2d. 6. The Livumla and Sliimiyu. It is Stanleys opinion that the Livumba, whose sourcehe discovered in Uruni, is the southernmost affluent of theVictoria Nyanza, but the Luwamberri plain, to which thatriver has been traced, and which after rains appears to beflooded, lies actually below the level of the lake, if aneroidobservation, carefully computed, can be accepted. TheMonanga, which flows towards the Livumba farther north,likewise crosses a d

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