So with his rifle and three cartridges to sustain him, often delirious with fever, and the inflammation in his leg, he commandeered the men of a native village and persuaded them, such was the prestige of his name, to carry him twenty-eight days in the "machela" to a friendly mission station on Lake NYASA.
"Sketches of the East Africa Campaign"
Robert Valentine Dolbey
Notably is this the case at Songea, in the angle between Lake NYASA and the Portuguese border.
"Sketches of the East Africa Campaign"
Robert Valentine Dolbey