cleanly white dress, he gave me the account of
his wanderings to the unknown lands north, as
follows—
“Mtagamoyo is a man who knows not what
fear is—Wallahi! He is as bold as a lion. When
he gave out to the Arabs and Wangwana of
Nyangwe that he was about to proceed as far as
possible to hunt up ivory, of course we all felt
that if any man could guide us to new ivory
fields it was Mtagamoyo. Many of the youngest
Arabs prepared themselves to follow him,
and all of us, mustering our armed slaves, followed
in his track.
“We first reached Uregga, a forest land,
where there is nothing but woods, and woods,
and woods, for days, and weeks, and months.
There was no end to the woods. The people
lived surrounded by woods. Strangers were
few before they saw us, and we had ‘shauri
after shauri with them. We passed along easily
for a few days, and then came trouble; we
struck for the Ugarowa, and in about a month
we reached Usongora Meno, where we fought
day after day. They are fearful fellows, and
desperate. We lost men every day. Every
man of ours that was killed was eaten. They
were hiding behind such thick bushes that we
could not see them, and their arrows were
poisoned.
“ Then the Arabs held another shauri. Some
were for returning, for they had lost many
men, but Mtagamoyo would not listen. He said
that thè pagans should not drive him away.
“Well, the end of the shauri was that we
crossed the Ugarowa, and went to Ukusu.
Wallahi! the Wakusu Were worse than those of
Usongora Meno, but Mtagamoyo heard of a
country called Unkengeri, where the natives
were said to be better. We pushed on, and
arrived at Kifna-Kima’s. When we reached
Kima-Kima’s, we possessed 290 guns; we had
lost twenty guns and any number of slaves on
the road.
“Kima-Kima, who is on the Lumami, told us
about the land of the little men, where the
ivory was so abundant that we might get a
tusk for a single cowrie. You know, master,
that when we Arabs hear of ivory being abundant
-there is no holding its back. Oh! wé
started instantly, crossed the Lumami, and came
to the land of the Wakuna. Among the Wa-
kuna, who are big men themselves, we saw
some six or seven of the dwarfs; the queerest-
looking creatures alive, just a yard high, with
long beards and large headé.
“ The dwarfs asked us a lot of questions,
where we came from, where we were going,
and what we wanted. They seemed to be
plucky little devils, though we laughed to see
them. They told us that in their country was
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