Makata

The Makata is a wilderness containing but one village of the Waseguhha throughout its broad expanse.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Makata swamp; Abdul Kader, the Hindi tailor and adventurer — the weakliest of mortal bodies — was ever ailing for lack of “force,” as he expressed it in

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Three of these streams take their rise from the crescent-like Usagara range, which bounds the Makata plain south and south-westerly; while the Rudewa rises in the northern horn of the same range.

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Warundi; to the Arab slave-traders and half-castes; to all fevers, remittent, and intermittent; to the sloughs and swamps of Makata; to the brackish waters and howling wastes; to my own dusky friends and followers, and to the hero-traveller and Christian gentleman,

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

To the dysentery contracted during, the transit of the Makata swamp, only two fell victims, and those were a pagazi and my poor little dog “Omar,” my companion from

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

The only tree of any prominence in the Makata valley was the

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Makata crossing, the Great Makata, the Little Makata, a nameless creek, and the Rudewa river unite; and the river thus formed becomes known as the Wami.

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What the fearful swamp of Makata had spared, the waters of

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

The 1st of May found us struggling through the mire and water of the Makata with a caravan bodily sick, from the exertion and fatigue of crossing so many rivers and wading through marshes.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

After three hours of splashing through four feet of water we reached dry land, and had traversed the swamp of Makata.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004