habanyaa

Updated: July 15, 2026

We were lying inside the mouth of the "Habanyaa" alias the Shark River, which flows along the south of a high grassy dome, streaked here and there with rows of palms, and broken into the semblance of a verdure-clad crater. The streamlet is a favourite haunt of the hippopotamus; a small one dived when it sighted us, and did not reappear.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1