gave up the ghost after an eighteen hours’ sickness. What
his disease was I never could ascertain; but as all the
remaining animals died afterwards much in the same
manner, I may state for once and for all, that these
attacks commenced with general swelling, at first on the
face, then down the neck, along the belly and down the
* I f i x."0 obstmate that had no effect upon
it and although we cut off the tails of some to relieve
them by bleeding, still they died.
In former days Kirengiie was inhabited, and we reason-
Hait, 28<a. ably hoped to find some supplies for the
JuAgty march before us. But we had calculated
without our host, for the slave-hunters had driven
every vestige of humanity , , ^ -v “aw"aayy ,; eamndu nnooww,, aass wwee were
delayed by our three loads behind, there was nothin,
n f lT T T / l o n n r l K n .1 i i i , 1 , ■: ifflip wmmm. micro was norning left
but to send back and purchase more grain. Such was one
of the many days frittered away in do-nothingness.
ay> a11 togetller again, we rose the first spurs of
To Camp, 29 t h . the well-wooded Usagara hills, amongst which
Ti. ,. the familiar bamboo was plentiful, and at
night we bivouacked in the jungle.
Bismg betimes in the morning, and starting with a
ToE.Mbiiiga, good will, we soon reached the first settle-
ments of Mbiiiga, from which could be seen
a cnnous blue mountain, standing up like a giant over-
oo g all the rest of the hills. The scenery here formed
a strong and very pleasing contrast to any we had seen
since leaving the coast. Emigrant Waziraha, who had
been driven from their homes across the Kingani river by
the slave-hunters, had taken possession of the place, and
disposed their little comcal-hut villages on the heights of
the niff-spurs in such a picturesque manner, that one could
not help hoping they would here at least be allowed to
rest m peace and quietness. The valleys, watered by little
brooks, are far nchei; and even prettier, than the high
lands above, being lined with fine trees and evergreen
shrubs; while the general state of prosperity was such,
that the people could afford, even at this late season of the
year, to turn their corn into malt to brew beer for sale;
and goats and fowls were plentiful in the market.
H ill "view from E a s te rn Mbuiga,
Passing by the old village of Mbuiga, which I occupied
To w. Mbiiiga, on former expedition, we entered some
3i«<. huts on the western flank of the Mbuiga
district; and here, finding a coast-man, a great friend of
the little sheikh’s, willing to take back to Zanzibar anything
we might give him, a halt was made, and I drew up
my reports. I then consigned to his charge three of the
most sickly of the Hottentots in a deplorable condition-#-;
one of the mules, that they might ride by tums#|and all
the specimens that had been collected. With regret I also
sent back the camera; because I saw, had I allowed my
companion to keep working it, the heat he was subjected
to in the little tent whilst preparing and fixing his plates
would very soon have killed him. The number of guinea-
fowl seen here was most surprising.