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Ujiji

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/ uːˈdʒiːdʒɪ /

noun

  1. a town in W Tanzania, on Lake Tanganyika: a former slave and ivory centre; the place where Stanley found Livingstone in 1871. It merged with the neighbouring town of Kigoma to form Kigoma-Ujiji in the 1960s

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Pressing on, Stanley unfurled the Stars & Stripes, fired a volley from his muskets, and swooped down on Ujiji dressed impeccably in a freshly chalked sun helmet, a new flannel suit and waxed Wellington boots.

From Time Magazine Archive

After 232 days of trekking, a passing caravan reported the presence of an old white man in the nearby village of Ujiji: it could only be Livingstone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Glenn, on leave from the board chairmanship of Royal Crown International, retraced Henry Stanley's 1,000-mile trek, from Bagamoyo to Ujiji, in what is now Tanzania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cameron’s two European companions turned back, but he continued his march and reached Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, in February 1874, where he found and sent to England Livingstone’s papers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

We had awakened Ujiji to the fact that a caravan was coming, and the people were witnessed running up in hundreds to meet us.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler

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