halting-station

Updated: June 11, 2025

Then emerging from the wilderness, we came into the open cultivated district of Tura, or "put down" called so by the natives because it was, only a few years ago, the first cleared space in the wilderness, and served as a good halting-station, after the normal ten day's march in the jungles, where we had now been struggling more than a month.

John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile