Identifier: zambesibasinnyas00rank (find matches)
Title: The Zambesi Basin and Nyassaland
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Rankin, Daniel J
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Publisher: Edinburgh, London : W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and rising in well-woodedslopes up the face of the plateau, afforded apleasant change to the dismal and monotonousswamp we had left. Another days steambrought us to Chiromo, a large native tow^nthen under the rule of Chipitula, one of DrLivingstones iwotegh. This town was built onthe north bank of the Ruo, on the narrow neckof land at its confluence \vith the Shir^. Sinceour first visit it has passed through many andeventful phases of history. The medley of nativehuts we then saw have been swept away andremoved some distance up the Ruo. In 1888 this place was the scene of the his-torical battle of Chiromo, which ended in theretirement of the Portuguese troops under MajorSerpa Pinto and the declaration of the BritishProtectorate of the Shire highlands, an eventthat marked the ofiicial birth of this newest ofi-spring of our great colonial empire. On a small island to the south of the conflu-ence is the site of Bishop Mackenzies grave, thepioneer of the Universities Mission to this part
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LANDING AT CHIROMO. od of Africa in 1859. Wishing to visit it, in con-formity with the pious custom of travellers atthat time, who made it their duty to clear itfrom the encroachments of the bush, we obtainedthe services of a guide and passed over the Ruoin a large canoe. Our landing collected a greatcrowd of women and children, who assembled ata safe distance to gaze on us, and as we passedthrough the village, ran, shrieking and crying,behind the huts, satisfying their curiosity bypeering at us from their place of vantage. Now-adays this feeling of curiosity and fear has alto-gether vanished, and the increased familiaritywith Europeans has effectually brought aboutthe proverbial result, which has often beenshown in an unpleasant way, and is only checkedby the presence of two British gunboats nowanchored in mid-stream. Arriving on the island,we walked for some distance over a maize plan-tation under the scorching rays of the mid-daysun. We then plunged into a thick jungle,through whic

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