Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27

beads, and rich present was bestowed
upon his brother and his son. The
great man begged for the heart of the
slaughtered OK, which was freely given
him, and other requests were likewise
honored by prompt gifts.
We had been compelled to take ad-
vantage of the fine sun which shone this
day to dry the bales and goods, and I
noticed, though without misgiving,
that the natives eyed them greedily.
The morning Of the third day the magic
doctoc returned again to camp to beg
for some more beads to make brother
hood with him. To this, after some
slight snow of reluctance to give too
much, I assented, and he departed ap-
parently pleased.
THE WAR CRY OF THE wATURU.
Half an hour afterward the war CRY Of
the Waturu was heard resounding
through each of the 200 villages of the
valley Of the Leemumbu. The war cry
was similar to that of the Wagogo, and
and, phonetically, it might be spelt
"Hehu, A Hehu," the latter syllables
drawn out in prolonged cry, thrilling
and loud.
These wild natives soon appeared in
great numbers, surrounded the camp of
the explorers, and made an attack upon
them, and three days fighting ensued.
The natives were finally severely pun
ished, considerable number OF them
being killed and wounded, and one OF
their villages burned. On the fourth
day the march was resumed. Mr. Stan
ley's narrative continues
VARYING FORTUNES
Various were our fortunes in our
travels between Mgongo Tembo, ir
Iramba, and the Niyanza. We traversed
the whole length of Usukuma, through
the districts of Mombiti, Usiha, Sen
gerema and Marya, and, passing through
Usmaow, re-entered Usukuma by
uchambi, and arrived at the lake after
a march of 100 miles.
TOPOGRAPHY.
AS far as Western Ugogo I may pass
over without attempting to describe the
country, as readers may obtain de-
tailed account of it from ssHow [ Found
Livingstone, Thence north is new
country to all, and brief description of
it may be interesting to students of
African geography.
North OF Mizanza a level plain ex-
tends as far as the frontier of Usan-
dawi, a distance of thirty five miles
English1. At Mukondoku the altitude,
as indicated by two first rate aneroids,
was $500 feet. At Mtiwi, twenty miles
north, the altitude was 1926 feet. Di-
verging west and northwest, we ascend
the slope of lengthy mountain wall,
apparently, but which, upon arriving
at the summit, we ascertain to be a
wide plateau, covered with forest. This
plateau has an altitude of $500 feet at
it's eastern extremity; but as it extends
westward it rises to height of 1850
feet. It embraces all Uyanzi, Unyany-
embe, Usukuma, Urimi and Irambo-
in short, all that part of Central Africa
lying between the valley of the Ruff
south and the Victoria Niyanza north,
and the mean altitude of this broad up
land cannot exceed 1850 feet. From
Mizanza to the Niyapza is distance of
nearly 800 geographical miles, yet at no
part Of this long journey did the ane-
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500 feet above the sea.
| AS far as Urimi, from the eastern
edge of the plateau, the land is cover
ed with a dense jungle of acacias,
which, by its density, strangles all
other species of vegetation. Here and
there, only in the cleft of rock, a
giant euphorbia may be seen, sole lord
of its sterile domain. The soil is shall
low, and consists of vegetable mould
mixed largely with sand and detritus of
the bare rocks, which crown each knoll
and ridge, and which testify too plainly
to the violence OF the periodical rains.
CURIOUS NATURAL RELICS.
In the basin of Matongo, in Southern
Urimi, we were instructed by the ruins
of hills and ridges, relics of loftier
upland, of what has been effected by
nature in the course of long ages. No
learned geological savant need ever ex
pound to the traveller who views these
rocky ruins, the geological history of
this country. From a distance we
viewed the whitening, naked and riven
rocks as singlar scene; but when we
stood among them, and noted the ap-
pearance Of the rocky fragments Of
granite, gnelss and porphyry, peeled, as
it were, rind after rind, or leaf after
leaf, like an artichoke, until she rock
was wasted away, it seemed as if
Dame Nature had left these relics,
these billy skeletons, to demonstrate her
laws and career. It seemed to me
as if she said, "Lo and behold this
broad basin of Matongo, with its TEEN
ing village and herds of cattle and fields
of corn, surrounded by these bare rocks
lin primeval time this land was cover
ed with water, it was the bed of vast
sea. The waters were dried, leaving a
wide expanse of level land, upon which
I caused heavy rains to fall five months
out of each year during all the ages
that have elapsed since first the hot
sunshine fell upon the soil. These
rains washed away the loose sand and
made deep burrows in course OF time,
until at certain places the rocky kernel
under the soil began to appear. The
burrows became enlarged, the water