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Next morning he provided a delicious breakfast for his guest, and fed the Makololo with pumpkins and maize, while he supplied them with farina for their journey to Kasenge, without even hinting at payment. The natives, though they long have had intercourse with the Portuguese, are ignorant and superstitious in the extreme.
Without doubt it is mainly owing to this unfortunate influence of slavery on African society that we have been kept so long ignorant of the resources of Equatorial Africa a vast field of surprising fertility, which would be of so much value to Zanzibar and neighbouring India, were it only properly developed. But I have been digressing, and must again return to Kasenge.
I tried every mode of inducement to entice the crew away to complete the journey, for the place of my destination, Kasenge, was in sight; but in vain. They had tasted this to them delicious fish, and were determined to dress and lay by a good store of it to carry with them.
Canoes The Crews The Biography of Bombay The Voyage Crocodiles The Lake Scenery Kivira Island Black Beetles An Adventure with One of Them Kasenge Island African Slavery. 3d March 1858. ALL being settled, I set out in a long narrow canoe, hollowed out of the trunk of a single tree. These vessels are mostly built from large timbers, growing in the district of Uguhha, on the western side of the lake.
The morning wind was too high for crossing from Kabizia to Kasenge, but at noon we embarked, and after paddling for ninety minutes S. 80o W., we arrived at the latter island, my destination. Sheikh Hamed bin Sulayyim, with many attendants and a host of natives, was standing ready to receive me.
Its sea-ward slopes are well wooded from near the summit down to the water's edge; but on the top, as though strong currents of air prevailed, and prevented vegetation from attaining any height, grass only is visible. Westward, behind the island of Kasenge, and away to the southward, the country is of a rolling formation, and devoid of any objects of interest. 11th.
The merchants of Kasenge treated the doctor with the most disinterested kindness, and furnished him with letters to their friends at Loanda. He was escorted by a black corporal of militia, who was carried in a hammock by his slaves.
I could also see two other small islands lying amidst these larger ones, too small for habitation. Though my canoe arrived on the 20th, bad weather prevented our leaving till the 22d, morning, completing twelve days at Kasenge.
The island of Kasenge is about one mile long, a narrow high ridge of land lying nearly due north and south, and is devoid of trees, and only a small portion of it is under cultivation. The lake washes its northwestern end; the remainder is encircled by a girdle of water about eighty yards broad.
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