issue but the Hottentots, who, not liking the loss of the
second fifteen cows, said that in Kafirland, where the laws
of the country are the same as here, the whole would have
been taken, and, as it was, they thought I was depriving
them of their rights to beef.
By a double march, the sheikh riding in a hammock
To camp, im. s^ung on a P°le> we now made Küalé, or
To e. fiübüga, “ Partridge ” nullah, which, crossing the road
to the northward, drains these lands to the
Malagarazi river, and thence into the Tanganyika lake.
Thence, having spent the night in the jungle, we next
morning pushed into the cultivated district of Rübüga,
and put up in some half-deserted tembés, where the
ravages of war were even more disgusting to witness than
at Türa. The chief, as I have said, was a slave, placed
there by the Arabs on the condition that he would
allow all traders and travellers to help themselves without
payment as long as they chose to reside there. In consequence
of this wicked arrangement, I found it impossible
to keep my men from picking and stealing. They looked
upon plunder as their fortune and right, and my interference
as unjustifiable.
By making another morning and evening march, we
To w. Rübüga, then reached the western extremity of this
Hth ê 22<2 cultivated opening ; where, after sleeping the
To e. Unyan- night, we threaded through another forest to
yembé, 23<2. little clearance of Kigüé, and in one more
march through forest arrived in the large and fertile district
of Unyanyembé, the centre of Unyamüézi—the Land
of the Moon—within five miles of Kazé, which is the
name of a well in the village of Tabora, now constituted
the great central slave and ivoiy merchants’ dépôt. My
losses up to this date (23d) were as follows :— One
Hottentot dead and five returned ; one freeman sent back
with the Hottentots, and one flogged and turned off ;
twenty-five of Sultan Majid’s gardeners deserted; ninety-
eight of the original Wanyamuezi porters deserted; twelve
mules and three donkeys dead. Besides which, more than
half of my property had been stolen; whilst the travelling
expenses had been unprecedented, in consequence of the
severity of the famine throughout the whole length of the
march.
V iew in E a s te rn TJnyanyainbe.