time. I next released the prisoners, much to their disgust,
for they had not known such good feeding before, and
dreaded being turned adrift again in the jungles to live on
calabash seeds; and then, after shooting, six guinea-fowl,
turned in for the night.
Betimes in the morning we were off, mounting the
m r, Bobdho, a good stiff ascent, covered with trees To Camp, 20th. 1 v ;
and large blocks of granite, excepting only
where cleared for villages; and on we went rapidly, until
at noon the advance party was reached, located in a village
overlooking the great interior plateau—a picture, as
it were, of the common type of African scenery. Here,
taking a hasty meal, we resumed the march all together,
descended the great western chain, and, as night set in,
camped in a ravine at the foot of it, not far from the
•great junction-station Ugogi, where terminate the hills of
Usagara.
C H A P T EK IV.
UGOGO, AND THE WILDERNESS OP MGUNDA MKHALI.
t h e l i e o f t h e c o u n t r y — r h i n o c e r o s - s t a l k in g — s c u f f l e o f
VILLAGERS OVER A CARCASS— CHIEF “ SHORT-LEGS ” AND HIS
SUCCESSOR— BUFFALO-SHOOTING— GETTING LOST— A TROUBLESOME
SULTAN—DESERTIONS FROM THE CAMP— GETTING PLUNDERED—
WILDERNESS MARCH—DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE
LOCAL POWERS—MANUA SARA'S STORY— CHRISTMAS— THE RELIEF
FROM KAZk.
T h i s day’s work led us from the hilly Usagara range into
m „ . M the more level To Camp m the Bush, 2isi & 22A ianc[s of the interior.
Making a double
march of it, we first stopped
to breakfast at the quiet little
settlement of Inenge, where
cattle were abundant, but
grain so scarce that the
villagers were living on
calabash seeds. Proceeding
thence across fields delightfully
checkered with fine
calabash and fig trees, we
marched, carrying water
through thorny jungles, un- P i or Bative ot U(S0S0.
til dark, when we bivouacked
for the night, only to rest and push on again next morn