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The rains about 5o south latitude had just lasted out the six months during which the sun was in the south; and now, as the sun had gone north, the rains had gone there also.
I have already published, in my 'Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, a description of the countries we had to pass through to reach Kaze, so I shall not trouble the reader with the details on that point, contained in my previous publication. Suffice it to say that Kaze is a place in the centre of Unyamuezi, the Land of the Moon, situated in S. lat. 5o, and E. long. 33o.
Now, the Bari people mentioned by him are evidently those who have long since been known to us as a tribe living on the Nile in latitude 5o north and longitude 32o east, and described by the different Egyptian expeditions sent up the Nile to discover its source.
But before this, she told him how the women had watched all that night and the day previous inside the poor little earth-mound of a defence against artillery, built by order of Jefferson and costing $37.5O; the women taking as always the places of the men who were gone away to the war; becoming as always the defenders of the land, of the children, of those left behind sick or too old to fight.
This idea would not occur to any one standing on the southern side, where the land is nearly, if not quite, as high as these hills themselves. The country in latitudes 2o and 5o north is therefore terraced like a hanging garden.
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