and vocal extravagances which we had to bear
in the village o f Zegi.
W e paid a decent tribute o f fifteen cloths to
Rusunzu, out o f the infamous s ix ty he had
demanded through his Mutware or chief; and
the Mutware received only four out o f the
twenty he had said should be paid to himself;
and after the termination o f the bargaining we
marched to U g a g a on the Malagarazi on the 18th.
The Mutware o f U g a g a the next day made a
claim o f forty doti or cloths before giving us
permission to cross the Malagarazi. I sent Frank
with twenty men to a point three miles below
Ugaga to prepare our boat; and meanwhile we
delayed negotiations until a messenger came
from Frank informing us that the boat was
ready , and then, after making a tentative offer
o f two cloths, which was rejected with every
ludicrous expression of contempt, we gave four.
T he Mutware then said that Rusunzu the king
had commanded that w e should return to Zegi
to fight his enemies, otherwise he withheld his
permission to cross the river. A t this piece o f
despotism we smiled, and marched towards the
boat, where we camped. A t 4 A.M. o f the 20th
May I had eighty guns across the mile-wide*
Malagarazi, and b y 3 P.M. the entire Expedition,
* In the dry season the Malagarazi is only about 69 yards
wide at Ugaga.
and our Arab friends whom we had met at Zegi,
were in Northern Uvinza.
The next day, avoiding the scorched plains o f
Uhha, o f bitter memory to me, we journeyed
to Ruwhera, eleven miles; thence to Mansumba,
due west, nine miles and a half through a thin
jungle; whence we despatched some Wanya-
mwezi across the frontier to Uhha to purchase
corn for the support o f the Expedition in the
wilderness between Uvinza and Ujiji.
Strange to say, the Wahha, who are the most
extortionate tribute-takers in Africa, will not interfere
with a caravan when once over the
frontier, but will readily sell them food. A b ou t
fifty Wahha even brought grain and fowls for
sale to our camp at Mansumba. Though truth
compels me to say that we should have fared
v e ry badly had we travelled through Uhha, I
must do its people the justice to sa y that they
are not churlish to strangers beyond their own
limits^
It is a great p ity that the Malagarazi is not
navigable. There is a difference o f nearly 900
feet between the altitude o f U gaga and that o f
Ujiji. One series o f falls are south-south-west
from Ruwhera, about twenty-five miles below
Ugaga. There is another series o f falls about
twenty miles from the Tanganika.
A t noon o f the 24th we camped on the western
bank of the Rusugi river. A small village, called