but my people did not fail me; they had long
ago been thoroughly drilled for such occasions
as the present, and they kept step and pace
with the lightly equipped Waganda. The men
who carried the boat-sections and canoe raced
like horses, and arrived soon after the advanced-
guard at camp. Traversing the district o f South
Ruoko, we plunged into an uninhabited tract of
mountain country, and, after a march o f eleven
miles, camped at Kazinga, in Eastern Benga.
The next day we crossed the Katonga, for
our course was now Westerly, and occupied
Western Benga, from the summit o f a tall hill
in which we obtained a faint view o f an enormous
blue mass afar off, which we were told was the
Great Mountain, in the country o f Gambaragara.
I named it Gordon-Bennett, ' in honour o f my
American chief.
Our foragers here obtained for the first time
a sight and hearing o f some natives, who shouted
out that we might proceed without fear, though
th ey doubted our ability to return, unless we
to o k wings like birds and flew aloft. Some
hiding-places o f the natives were also discovered
b y accident amongst the tall grass beyond the
fields. A little- w a y from the village we found
many deep pits, with small circular mouths,
which proved, on examination, to lead b y several
passages from the mouth o f the pit to more
roomy excavations, like so many apartments.
rlan. 8, 1876.-1 mount EDWIN ARNOLD. 25r
[ Ankori. J
These underground dwellings are numerous in
Southern Unyoro.
After a march o f sixteen miles through a wild
country, we camped, on the 8th January, on
the east bank o f the Mpanga river. This stream
takes its rise near the base o f Mount Gordon-
Bennett, and, flowing a few miles to the east o f
the lo fty hump o f Mount Edwin Arnold, is met
by the Rusango river, flowing north-west from
Mount Lawson, in the district o f Kibanga, in
Ankori ; the two streams then, united, rush with
impetuous force a little north o f west, and, after
several falls, plunge into Beatrice Gulf. Mount
Edwin Arnold, o f an altitude o f some 9000 feet
above the sea, stood west o f our camp, on the
Mpanga, at the distance of s ix miles.
W e had now left Unyoro proper and entered
Ankori, or Usagara. An old dilapidated wooden
enclosure denoted that this extreme corner of
Ankori was sometimes visited b y Wasagara
herdsmen for the sake o f pasture.
T he average altitude o f our several camps
since leaving the Victoria Lake did not exceed
4600 feet; but as we drew west, the nights were
bitterly cold. On the night o f the 7 th the
thermometer fell to 53° Fahr., and on the night
of the 8th to 55° Fahr., this cold temperature
being, no doubt, caused b y night winds from
Gordpn-Bennett mountain. F o g s , rivalling the
famed November fogs in London, prevailed as