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Definition of Makuta
1. likuta [n] - See also: likuta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Makuta
Literary usage of Makuta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"The King of makuta gave us a grand reception, with much dinning of music. ...
The people of makuta are great traders and very enterprising, ..."
2. The Story of Africa and Its Explorers by Robert Brown (1894)
"Meanwhile, Mr. Comber left England in advance of his vessel, with the intention
of again reaching makuta, and thence the Congo, by a march across the ..."
3. Pioneering on the Congo by William Holman Bentley (1900)
"I have never met any of our neighbours in the makuta district before. I replied,
41 am going to makuta and ..."
4. The Centenary Volume of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1892 by John Brown Myers, W J Henderson (1892)
"The shortest and most easy road was rid makuta, and, in spite of the previous
repulse, it was determined to attempt this route again, but on this occasion ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"He had made a journey to makuta, but had unfortunately met with a rebuff there.
Mr. Comber makes a few remarks about the climate of Congo, from which it ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"Since they were last at makuta—which is by far the most direct road to Stanley
Pool—Messrs. Comber and Hartland had heard many conflicting reports ..."
7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1897)
"Round this bend is the village of the chief makuta,a friend and ally of ...
expecting to find the canoes of makuta ready and waiting to go forth in ..."
8. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1881)
"The missionaries resolved to return to Congo, and having heard that the makuta
chief was willing to let them pass through his country on certain conditions ..."
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