and the Tots brought in, in high excited triumph, a
famous pig.
- This march, which declines from the TGnga.ni a little,
TotheMgsta leads through rolling, jungly ground, full of
game, to the tributary stream Mgdta. It is
fordable in the dry season, but has to be bridged by
throwing a tree across it in the wet one. Rising in the
Usagara hills to the west of the hog-backed Mkambaku,
this branch intersects the province of Ukhutii in the
centre, and circles round until it unites with the Kingani
about four miles north of the ford. Where the Kingani
itself rises, I never could find out; though I have heard
that its source lies in a gurgling spring on the eastern
face of the Mkambaku, by which account the Mgeta is
made the longer branch of the two.
C H A P T E R III.
USAGARA.
NATURE OF THE COUNTRY— RESUMPTION OF THE MARCH A
HUNT— BOMBAY AND BARAKA — THE SLAVE-HUNTERS — THE
IVORY-MERCHANTS— COLLECTION OF NATURAL-HISTORY SPECIMENS—
A FRIGHTENED VILLAGE— TRACKING A MULE.
U n d e r U-Sagara, or, as it might be interpreted, U-sa-
Gara—country of Gara—is included all the country lying
between the bifurcation of the
Kingani and Mgeta rivers east,
and Ugogo, the first country
on the interior plateau west,-—
a distance of a hundred miles.
On the north it is bounded
by the Mukondokua, or upper
course of the Wami river, and
on the south by the Ruaha, or
northern great branch of the
Lhfiji river. It forms a link of
the great East Coast Range ;
but though it is generally comprehended
under the single
name Usagara, many sub-tribes i , Msagara, o r Native of Usagara. occupy and apply their own
names to portions of i t ; as, for instance, the people