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days when raiding or purchasing slaves. The trails 

 made by the men are made much as the beasts make 

 theirs. They are generally longer and better defined, 

 although I have seen hippo tracks more deeply marked 

 than any made by savage man. But they are made 

 simply by men following in one another's footsteps, and 

 they are never quite straight. They bend now a little 

 to one side, now a little to the other, and sudden loops 

 mark tlie spot where some vanished obstacle once stood ; 

 around it the first trail makers went, and their successors 

 have ever trodden in their footsteps, even though the 

 need for so doing lias long passed away. 



Our camp at Kilimakiu was by a grove of shady trees, 

 and from it at sunset we looked across the vast plain 

 and saw the far-off mountains grow umber and purple 

 as the liglit waned. Behind the camp and the farm- 

 house near which we were rose Kilimakiu INIountain, 

 beautifully studded with groves of trees of many kinds 

 On its farther side hved a tribe of the Wakamba. Their 

 chief, with all the leading men of his \ illage, came in 

 state to call upon me, and presented me with a fat, 

 liairy sheep of tiie ordinary kind found in this part of 

 Africa, where the sheep very wisely do not grow wool. 

 The headman was dressed in kliaki, and showed me 

 with pride an official document which confirmed him in 

 his position by direction of tlie government, and re- 

 quired him to perform various acts, chiefly in the way 

 of preventing his tribes-people from committing robbery 

 or murder, and of helping to stamp out cattle disease. 

 Like all the Wakamba, they had flocks of goats and 

 sheep, and herds of humped cattle ; but they were 

 much in need of meat, and liailed my advent. They 

 were wild savages, with filed teeth, many of them stark 

 naked, though some of them carried a blanket. Their 



