kitunga

Updated: May 9, 2025

They struck up the exhilarating song of the Zanzibar boatmen, with the ecstatic chorus Kinan de re re Kitunga, rowing away like madmen, until they were compelled to rest from sheer exhaustion, while the perspiration exuded from the pores of their bodies in streams. When refreshed, they bent back to their oars, raising the song of the Mrima O mama, re de mi Ky,

Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley - How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley