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 UJIJI - LoveToKnow Article on UJIJI
Ujiji is the meeting-point of merchants from all parts of Tanganyika, and the terminus of the caravan route from Dar-es-Salaam.
Arabs from Zanzibar made Ujiji their headquarters during the' first half of the igth century, and it became a great slave and ivory mart.
In 1869 David Livingstone, coming from the south, arrived at Ujiji, and it was here that H. Stanley found him on the 28th of October 1871.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /U/UJ/UJIJI.htm   (165 words)

  
 David Livingstone - Wikipedia
De slavenhandelaren keerden terug naar Ujiji aan het Tanganyikameer, doch Livingstone trok door naar het zuidoosten, waar naar zeggen nog een meer te vinden was.
Hij bereikte dit meer, het Bangweolomeer, maar had geen ruilmiddelen en was ernstig verzwakt.
Livingstone keerde terug naar Ujiji, in de hoop daar proviand te krijgen, maar deze was tussen Zanzibar en Ujiji door een karavaanleider gestolen.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Livingstone   (1864 words)

  
 Ujiji
About 10 km south of Kigoma, Ujiji is the oldes town in western Tanzania.
Ujiji was a "slave trade" town settled by arabic peoples.
Ujiji is a place where Burton and Speke first reached the shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1858, and the place where Dr. Livingstone met Stanley in 1871.
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/u/uj/ujiji.html   (109 words)

  
 Ujiji, waar Stanley Livingstone vond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ujiji ligt op 10 km van Kigoma en heeft een levendige markt en scheepswerf.
In het verleden was Ujiji het eindpunt van de karavaanroute die van de kust kwam.
Ujiji is als lokatie echter meer bekend omwille van deze gevleugelde uitspraak "Dr Livingstone, I presume" uitgesproken door Henry Morton Stanley.
www.africanheart.com /N/ujiji.htm   (115 words)

  
 Ujiji, Uganda  -  Travel Photo by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
From Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika he accompanied a group of Arab slave traders westward, in March 1871, becoming the first European to reach the Lualaba River.
Livingstone theorized that the Lualaba was the headwaters of the Nile (it is actually the headwaters of the Congo River), but instability caused by slave raiding made further exploration impossible.
With his health deteriorating, he made it back to Ujiji in October.
www.galenfrysinger.com /ujiji.htm   (173 words)

  
 Ujiji. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Ujiji was an important settlement of Arab and Swahili ivory and slave traders between c.1850 and c.1890.
The explorer Henry M. Stanley successfully ended his search for David Livingstone at Ujiji on Nov. 10, 1871.
The town was formerly called Ugoi and was for a time combined with Kigoma into a single municipality.
www.bartleby.com /65/uj/Ujiji.html   (120 words)

  
 Sandra en Detlev in Oost Afrika december 2004 - mei 2005
Sandra en Detlev zijn in Ujiji aan de oostoever van lake Tanganyika.
In de verte zien we DR Congo (Zaire) liggen, het tweede land dat we wel zien tijdens deze reis maar niet zullen vereren met een bezoek (het andere land is Zambia, dat we zien vanuit de Tanzaniaanse grensplaats Tunduma).
Ujiji is een van de vele kleine dorpjes die we tijdens onze reis aandoen.
www.reisdoorafrika.nl /blog/?verslag=145   (322 words)

  
 Lilit og hendes killinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
We soon decided that they the female was going to be called Ujiji and the male Uzuri, both African names.
When we were told that Ujiji was going to be called Chimay we considered giving both kittens C-names instead of U-names.
Ujiji is the town in Africa where the famous meeting between Livingstone and Stanley took place.
www.cats-in-blue.dk /navne_k_toya_e.htm   (308 words)

  
 Salonqa and Sarantoya
Ujiji is the African town where the famous meeting between Livingstone and Stanley took place in 1871.
Ujiji and Uzuri are growing, and they have a lot of skills already.
From time to time Ujiji Chimay is exactly as cheeky as her brother, but other times she is very, very girlish: mild and gentle and soft.
www.cats-in-blue.dk /nytkillingerU_e.htm   (1087 words)

  
 Ujiji -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ujiji is the oldest town in western (A republic in eastern Africa) Tanzania.
Ujiji was a " (Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries) slave trade" town settled by Arab peoples.
There is a former slave route near the market.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/uj/ujiji.htm   (71 words)

  
 Andrew Maykuth Online | maykuth.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The sign pointing the way to the Livingstone Memorial is hardly noticeable on Ujiji's main street, where the Cine-Atlas doesn't look as if it has shown a movie in a while.
Today, there is not much else to attract tourists to Ujiji, a former Arab slave-trading village that once was a key outpost for European explorers searching for the source of the Nile.
Now Ujiji can be reached from the coast in several days by rail, three days by road, or four hours in a turboprop airplane.
www.maykuth.com /Africa/tanz210.htm   (977 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - David Livingstone
Throughout most of these last explorations, Livingstone was unable to get word out about his activities, and his welfare became a matter of international concern.
Five days after his arrival in Ujiji, a rescue party headed by Anglo-American explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley reached Livingstone.
Stanley supposedly greeted Livingstone with the famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” After Livingstone convinced Stanley that he was not in need of rescue, the two men explored Lake Tanganyika together.
encarta.msn.com /text_761557618___5/David_Livingstone.html   (701 words)

  
 JINX | DR. LIVINGSTONE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He limps back to the village Ujiji, to his headquarters and his bed.
Ujiji is a small central African village near the shores of Lake Tanganyika, a pit stop on the Zanzibar slave road.
Resting there in Ujiji, he is attended by the Swahili traders who have befriended him.
www.jinxmagazine.com /livingstone.html   (824 words)

  
 Ujiji travel guide — Ujiji tourism and travel information
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 122 (Dawid Liwingstone, hans person och missionsverksamhet)
Jag har ej fått bref på åratal, utom de tre brefwen i Ujiji, och jag har en djup, innerlig längtan att få sluta och gå hem.
Af desse woro många från Ujiji, och för att twinga honom att återwända dit från det krigiska landet, gjorde de myteri mot honom och hotade att skada honom på alla sätt, om han ej willfor deras önskan.
Om han ginge tillbaka till Ujiji, så skedde det ej för deras skull, utan endast emedan han ingenting kunde utträtta här, då folken förföljde hwarandra och hindrade honom att fortsätta undersökningen och wandringen uppefter floden Lualaba.
www.runeberg.org /liwing/0124.html   (384 words)

  
 TANZANET - The Tanzanian Electronic Networking Community - Tanzanet Kandoro-Prize 2002 awarded to Ahmed Akilimali ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Tanzanet Kandoro-Prize 2002 is awarded to poet Ahmed Akilimali Snowhite of Ujiji, Kigoma Tanzania.
Sheikh Akilimali Snowhite was born 1926 in Ujiji, Kigoma where he has spent most of his adult life.
Sheikh Ahmed Akilimali Snowhite alizaliwa mwaka 1926 mjini Ujiji, Kigoma ambapo anaishi sasa hivi katika kitongoji cha Katenyanga.
www.tanzanet.org /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1359   (549 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Just as we were preparing to leave Ujiji, by great good fortune some supplies were brought to us by an Arab called Mohinna, an old friend whom we formerly left at Kazé, and who had now followed us here to trade in ivory.
The weather was very fine, the rainy season having ceased on the 15th May; we marched rapidly across the eastern horn of the mountains back to the ferry on the Malagarazi, but by a more northernly route than the one by which we came.
Ugogo, on the highway between the coast and Ujiji, is a place so full of inhabitants compared with the other places on that line, that the coast people quote it as a wonderful instance of high population; but this district astonished all my retinue.
www.wollamshram.ca /1001/Speke/speke-chap08.htm   (10874 words)

  
 HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Zimbabwe (fieldwork 1997) and the Kigoma/ Ujiji Town Council in Tanzania (fiel dwork 1996...
Livingstone."In the notes Stanley recalls: "We encountered the Ujiji road over which we paced with eager spirit until the lake shores...
Irvine HENRY STANLEY, explorer, describes the end of his quest through Africa by Lake Tanganyika: 'Well, we are but a mile from Ujiji now, and it is high time we should let them know a caravan is coming; so 'Commence firing' is the word passed along the length...
www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?FN=SS&search_newspapers=on&search_magazines=on&q=Ujiji&refid=ency_botnm   (542 words)

  
 Russian Blues from Hesseldal
Ujiji is the small village in Africa were Stanley met Livingstone.
When they had gotten their names, I tried to find out more about Ujiji and the meeting.
Ujiji Chimay in my hands 7 weeks old.
www.geocities.com /ofeliahesseldal/toyachi.htm   (227 words)

  
 AIM25: School of Oriental and African Studies: Thomson, John Boden and Elizabeth
The site was to form the basis of the new Hope Fountain Mission - a difficult station, which was to be destroyed twice through local conflict before the end of the nineteenth century.
In 1876, Thomson was recalled to England to discuss the possibility of establishing a new Mission at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika.
To travel across Central Africa with ox-drawn wagons proved impracticable, and after deliberation the Mission members decided that their original objective of reaching Ujiji without establishing intermediate stations was over ambitious.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/19/104.htm   (486 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ujiji
Updated 46 days 21 hours 39 minutes ago.
Kigoma is a town in western Tanzania, on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika and close to the border with Burundi.
The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ujiji   (380 words)

  
 The source of the Nile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The age-old mystery, the source of the Nile, seemed close to being solved, and Livingstone became obsessed with the idea of accomplishing this but, although frequently convinced that he was on the verge of success, he always remained baffled.
Susi came running to tell him of the approach of 'a white man' - Stanley, the journalist who had been sent by his paper, the New York Herald, to find Livingstone.
Stanley's arrival was welcome; he had brought with him stores and medicines, news and letters from home, and although Stanley was only just over half Livingstone's age, the two men quickly developed a great respect for each other during the brief four months of Stanley's stay at Ujiji.
atschool.eduweb.co.uk /blantyre/living/source.html   (648 words)

  
 Ujiji Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 UJIJI - Online Information article about UJIJI
Zanzibar made Ujiji their headquarters during the' first See also:
Speke reached Ujiji from Zanzibar, being the first Europeans to see Lake Tanganyika.
south, arrived at Ujiji, and it was here that H. See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /TUM_VAN/UJIJI.html   (228 words)

  
 Friel's Blog
This is the plaque on the Livingstone Memorial in Ujiji, Tanzania.
There is little doubt that Henry Morton Stanley did indeed meet Daniel Livingstone in this village on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1871.
Some accounts of this historic meeting claim to place at this location near Livingstone's house, but other reports claim that Livingstone was alerted to Stanley arrival and went out to meet him at some other place in Ujiji.
friel.blogspot.com   (601 words)

  
 Ujiji, où Stanley a rencontré Livingstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ujiji est surtout connu pour la phrase «Dr. Livingstone, I presume », prononcée par Henry Morton Stanley.
Dans la rue Livingstone, une plaque commémorative et les deux mangoustans, sous lesquels a eu lieu la rencontre, nous rappellent ce moment historique.
Pour un safari à Ujiji, Gombe et Mahale, regardez ici.
www.africanheart.com /F/ujiji.htm   (104 words)

  
 Nordiska Ciklidsällskapet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Här hade Livingstone träffat en arab som nyligen hade varit i Ujiji och därför kunde informera honom om hans proviant som fanns där.
Han hade lunginflammation, hostade blod och drömde att han såg sig själv liggandes död på stigen till Ujiji.
Och den 14 Mars 1869 nådde Livingstone äntligen Ujiji, knappt tre år efter avfärd vid floddeltat vid Mikindani.
www.ciklid.se /ciklidbladet_artikel.asp?NR=9807&LOPNR=2   (4280 words)

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