Word: longido
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...border in Tanzania, looms the hulking mass of Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, its snow-capped dome giving way to gently sloping flanks that shimmer blue in the dying light. Crumpled along the horizon to the west and east are distant smaller mountains: Chyulu, Ol Dionyo Orok and Longido. To the north is nothing but huge sky and endless plain...
...come to Longido in the Masai Plains to baptize some adults. The chapel was small and the Christians, the baptismal candidates and many others gathered under the trees. Suddenly during the sermon the Masai chief and his warriors began to come in groups. Within ten minutes our assembly was surrounded by a ring of fully armed warriors looking irritated and with a strange light in their eyes. It seemed apparent they had come to make trouble. But we were allowed to finish our service unmolested...
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