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Livingston Exploration (JSTOR).pdf - 1 views

diigo.com/0sf1xi Asanda Ndulwini
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  • 'rhe Portuguese about 'rete' and these parts were inclined to consider them as tl-le head-waters of the Chire. Lacerda's death, no doubt, prevented him from aseertaining this poin
    • asandandulwini
      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      This Chire was the largest river in Malawi. It's is the only outlet of Lake Malawi and flows into the Zambezi river in Mozambique.
  • s impossilvle that any of them can run to the Chire. A glance at the map and the position of the high land to the s. of Lake N'yassa will settle that point. Happily,-I think, the matter is no lon;er left in doub
  • The Arabs in the East, who visit all these places in the interior, have long told us that the waters of the rivers, such as the Luffia, that etlter the sea to the s. of Zanzibar, rise far inland to the s.w. of Lake N>yassa, and come, such as the Luffia, from a lalge lake in the interio
    • asandandulwini
      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      The Arabs came to East Africa coast to trade. Trading items like gold, ivory, agricultural parts.
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  • There we learn that the word Nhanja is applied to either lake or river; that there is in the interior, and much to the N of Cazembe, first, a Nhanja Mucuro Grande} or Great River, and 1lext, the Nhanja Piqueno7 or Littl
  • canoes
    • asandandulwini
      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      Canoes- Means a light, narrow boat with pointed ends and no keel, propelled with a paddle or paddles.
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Explorers travelling through the Lakes of Central Africa (JSTOR).pdf - 1 views

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  • THE travellers who have journeyeel anto (:entral Africa from the East coast and the neighbourhood of Zanzibar have been called to encounter difficulties as formidable as lrlay be met with in any part of the world. These difficulties have caused not only peril to health and severe trials of patience, but have occasioned theln unusual expense. One object which most of them have kept in vierv was to reach the line of the three great lakes, and pay a, visit to l:Jjiji.
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      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      Zanzibar- Swahili Unguja, was an island in the Indian ocean lying 22 miles (35 km) off the coast of east-central Africa. During this age of exploration, the Portuguese Empire it's when they gained control of Zanzibar.
  • of brushwood, and of small forest with tropical plants and trees. A llundred miles in the intelior the ground has beun to rise, and toW exhibit lines of hills with parallel valle-s, nzore or?]ess regulare the traveller cro now mounting a high granite ridge, then descending; mounting lligher, and descending a little again. In this way he crosses the broad swampy valley of the Mukandoliwa or Makata Xiver, passes the little Lake Ugombo in which it rises, and winding among the noble hills of the Usagara RanDe, arrives at length at Mpwapwa, on the upper plateau, 3300 feet above the se
  • . A llundred miles in the intelior the ground has beun to rise, and toW exhibit lines of hills with parallel valle-s, nzore or?]ess regulare the traveller cro now mounting a high granite ridge, then descending; mounting lligher, and descending a little again. In this way he crosses the broad swampy valley of the Mukandoliwa or Makata Xiver, passes the little Lake Ugombo in which it rises, and winding among the noble hills of the Usagara RanDe, arrives at length at Mpwapwa, on the upper plateau, 3300 feet above the se
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  • A llundred miles in the intelior the ground has beun to rise, and toW exhibit lines of hills with parallel valle-s, nzore or?]ess regulare having a general trend to the N.N.E. These the traveller crossesr now mounting a high granite ridge, then descending; mounting lligher, and descending a little again. In this way he crosses the broad swampy valley of the Mukandoliwa or Makata Xiver, passes the little Lake Ugombo in which it rises, and winding among the noble hills of the Usagara RanDe, arrives at length at Mpwapwa, on the upper plateau, 3300 feet above the se
    • asandandulwini
      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      Explorers were crossing through the Makata river, a stream in Lindi region, Tanzania with the region front code of African/Middle east. Lake Ugombo one of the lakes of Tanzania expedited by Henry Morton Stanley, regarding Livingston's exploration in central Africa.
  • gulare the traveller
  • itherto all the English travellers in East Africa have been dependent upon these huluan bearers. Frotn Burton down to the Church Missionary Expedition, which left the coast a few nonths at,o, every one has been compelled to etnploy them. And the trouble they have caused by their fickleness, their dishonesty, their bodily weaknesses, their indolence, their diseases, and numerous deaths, has been indescriba
  • ganyika, thought it worth while specialla to inquire into two points: (1 ) Could a route be found to the north of the WAmi River, on higher ground, and free from the swampy levels found here and there on the road ftom Bagamoyo? and (2) Was it possible to employ on the entire line the waggen drawn by bllllocks, so common in the colonies of South Africa, and that without risk from the tsetse-fly? And as the Rev. Rot,er Price, who has had long experience of roads ancl waggons in South Afiica, was then in England, they requested Mr. Price to proceed to Zanzibar to make these inquiries on the spot. The following is a brief outline of Mr. Price's proceedings, and of their result.
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  • B- 26, 1877,
  • Mr. Price arrived at Zanzibar on May 2nd, 1876, and, havillb gained much inforlnation bearing upon his purpose, he resolved to pay a preliminary visit to Sadani, on the African coast, and confer with Bwfina Heri, the chief of the tdistrict, respecting a j ourney into the interior.
  • Mr. Price that no f) was known on that road which killed bullocks, and that cattle wele frequently brought down to the coast from the interior. The arrival of an ivory caravan from near Unyanyembe proved that the route proposed was actually isl use, and the information derived from its people i
  • that it contained no speci
  • diffioulties.
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Eastern Route to Central Africa (T & F).pdf - 1 views

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  • Currie's Castle Line of steamers takes us in six weeks to the Portu- guese town of Quilimane. This town is still often described as at the mouth of the Zambesi, but this is incorrect. That river discharges itself into the sea by three principal mouths, the most southerly of which, the Kongoni, is generally considered the best. Quilimane is situated 70 miles north of this mouth, on the Quilimane or Kwakwa River, as it is called at different parts of its course.
    • asandandulwini
      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      Quilimane was a seaport in Mazombique. It was the administration capital of the Zambezia province and the province's largest city and stands 25 km from the river of the Good Signs.
  • Fevers in this part of Africa seem to be inevitable, but often pass away as quickly as they come. If, however, complications arise, they prove very dangerous. I remember Shimwara, a few miles up the river, as the place where I most nearly succumbed. Providentially, I had been met a few days previously by a medical missionary, Dr. Laws, who nursed me through days of unconsciousness and months of subsequent weakness ; and I recovered.
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      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      This is derived from the fact that, before the exploration of outsiders, people of Africa didn't take note of diseases from the lakes. And that led to diseases like Diarrhoea. And that was one of the reason intellectuals and doctors came to help Africans whilst other came to control.
  • At the Portuguese custom-house, a few miles from the confluence, Morumbala, a noble mountain, towers above the nearer Chingachinga Hills, but the river makes considerable detours ere its base is reached. After the dreary monotony of the plain, the change to this scenery of hill and burn is most refreshing, as is also the clear cold stream water that flows from the heights into the warmer Shir6.
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      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      Mount Morrumbala's montane forests are an inland enclave of the Southern Zanzibar Inhamabene coastal forest mosaic ecoregion, which extends along the more humid coast.
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  • culminate
    • asandandulwini
      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      Culminate- Means reaching a climax or point of highest development.
  • Portuguese traders at Mpassas and Shame were killed, and their stores carried off; the custom-house was broken into and cleared; the French factory at Shimwara, and Dutch barges in transit, and some of our boats were looted
  • miniature dandelion,
    • asandandulwini
      asandandulwini on 26 Apr 23
       
      These were plants discovered near the sea/coastal ridge.
  • Passing three small villages, at any of which water can be had or a halt made, we reach the Company's head station, ~ Mandala. The situation is central, communication frequent, both towards the coast and inland. It is also healthy, being at an altitude of about 3500 feet. Situated a mile to the north is the flourishing Blantyre Mission.
  • Last July (1884) they made another raid, and overran the whole country, with the excep- tion of the British settlements. With the whites they declared they had no quarrel, and carried out this policy so far as to send back carriers whom they had captured returning from the river, so soon as they learned they were in our employ.
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NYASSA LAND (GALE).pdf - 1 views

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  • asandandulwini on 25 Apr 23
     
    This is a piece of the newspaper discussing about the difficulties faced by explorers in NYASSA LAND. This is because the lake was important for the means of transportation for people and cargo. Ships which transport cotton, rubber, tobacco, tea, rice and peanuts on Lake Nyasa. Another aspect is Portugal advancements, when the Royal Decree was issued authorising the establishment of a Portuguese mission at Mponda, at the southern end of Lake Nyassa. That claimed territorial sovereignty by Portugal.
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Lake_Malawi - 1 views

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  • asandandulwini on 25 Apr 23
     
    This is Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the sourthenmost lake in the East African Rift system.
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