tembe

The Arabs who now stood before the front door of my tembe were the donors of the good things received the day before.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Proceeding through the semi-desert rolling table-land -- in one place occupied by men who build their villages in large open squares of flat-topped mud huts, which, when I have occasion to refer to them in future, I shall call by their native name tembe -- we could see on the right hand the massive mountains overhanging the Mukondokua river, to the front the western chain of these hills, and to the left the high crab-claw shaped ridge, which, extending from the western chain, circles round conspicuously above the swelling knolls which lie between the two main rocky ridges.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

Hamed preceded, promising to give Sayd bin Salim notice of my coming, and to request him to provide a tembe for me.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

When they were mustered for the march outside the tembe, the only man absent was Bombay.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Out of the thirty-three loads which were stored for him in my tembe — the stock sent to Livingstone, Nov. 1,1870 — but few of them would be available for his return trip to Rua and Manyuema.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Three days afterwards I sallied out of my tembe, escorted by eighteen bravely dressed men of my escort, to pay Tabora a visit.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

I mustered the entire caravan outside the tembe, our flags and streamers were unfurled, the men had their loads resting on the walls, there was considerable shouting, and laughing, and negroidal fanfaronnade.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

These had been intrusted at various times to the chiefs of caravans, who had faithfully delivered them at my tembe, according to their promise to the Consul.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

When I inquired into the details of the attack, and the manner of the death of these Arabs, I was told that after the first firing which warned the inhabitants of Tabora that the enemy was upon them, Khamis bin Abdullah and some of the principal Arabs who happened to be with him had ascended to the roof of his tembe, and with his spyglass he had looked towards the direction of the firing.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

As we passed by the tembe of the great Sultan, the msagira, or chief counsellor, a pleasant grey-haired man, was at work making a thorn fence around a patch of young corn.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004