CH A P T E R I I I
JOURNEY TO KAZEH, 500 MILES IN THE INTERIOR— ESCORT AND
CASUALTIES ON THE MARCH— CROSS THE EAST AFRICAN CHAIN
INTO UGOGO— CLIMATE AND DISEASES OP KAZEH— AGRICULTURE
AND PRODUCTS— WILD ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND F I S H -
FOUR NATIVE RACES, THE WAZARAMO, WASAGARA, WAGOGO,
AND WANYAMUEZI.
On the 2d of October 1860, we started from Bago-
moyo on the East African coast for Kazeh, 500 miles
in the interior of Africa, latitude 5° south. The party
consisted of the following :—
Captain Speke, commanding.
,, Grant, second in command.
Corporal, Cape Mounted Rifles, butcher.
Private “ William,” bugler and cook.
,, Middleton, Speke’s valet.
,, April, Grant’s valet, cook, &c.
„ Lemon, useful generally.
,, Reyters, fiddler.
„ Peters.
,, Arries.
,, Jansen.
„ “ Ja co b ” Adams.
Said bin Salem, native commandant.
Bombay, factotum, interpreter.
Baraka, commanding Zanzibar men, interpreter.
Rahan, interpreter, j gervants
. °’’ ( rifle-carriers.
LQAdi, valet, )
Mabrook, valet, donkey-man.
Three or four women.
Sixty-four Seedee boys, ) Carrying our k it and
115 porters of the in te rio r,) barter.
Eleven mules carrying ammunition.
Five donkeys to carry the sick.
Twenty-five Belooch soldiers escorted us for the
first thirteen stages, and we had the under-mentioned
casualties during the journey :—
Private Peters d e a d ;
Five other privates sent back sick ;
About th irty Seedees deserted;
One discharged;
113 porters deserted;
Eleven mules and two donkeys dead ;
Fifteen out of twenty goats stolen ; and
Our native commandant, the Sheikh, hors dc coTtibttt.
The daily stages have been so well and so fully
described by Captain Speke that I shall not dwell
upon them, but merely mention a few incidents descriptive
of our life in the interior, and the fauna we
observed. To accomplish this distance of 500 miles
in 71 travelling days, of from 1 to 25 miles per day
on foot, took us all the months of October, November,
December, and twenty-five days of January, struggling
against the caprices of our followers, the difficulties of
the countries passed through, and the final desertion
of our porters.
There being no roads, merely a rough track, no
beasts of burden nor conveyances of any kind in the
country, our whole kit was put into loads of 50 and
60 lb. each, without lock or key, and the porters
paraded up and down with them a whole day trying