mkungu's

Updated: May 28, 2025

The Mkungu's women brought pombe, and spent the day gazing at us, till, in the evening, when I took up my rifle, one ran after Bana to see him shoot, and followed like a man; but the only sport she got was on an ant-hill, where she fixed herself some time, popping into her mouth and devouring the white ants as fast as they emanated from their cells for, disdaining does, I missed the only pongo buck I got a shot at in my anxiety to show the fair one what she came for.

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