340 STANLEY'S SEARCH FOR LIVINGSTONE 



was nearly white. Such tidings as these were enough to induce Stan- 

 ley to strain every nerve to hasten his steps, and we can readily believe 

 how exasperating to a man of his personal vigor and promptitude 

 were the many delays and obstacles he had to contend with between 

 this point and his destination. 



The caravans had been twenty-nine days on the march, and they 

 had covered 119 miles since leaving" Bagamoyo. When encamped a 

 day's march from Simbanwenni, Stanley experienced his first attack 

 of the mnkungiiru or fever of East Africa. He was destined to have 

 no less than twenty-three of such attacks before regaining the shores 

 of the Indian Ocean. 



The remedy, applied for three mornings in succession after the 

 attack, was a quantum of 15 grains of quinine, taken in three doses of 

 five grains each, every other hour from daw^n to meridian. I may 

 add that this treatment was perfectly successful in his case and in all 

 others w^hich occurred in the camp. 



Proceeding onwards and ever westward, the party arrived at 

 the Makata valley, which the rainy season had converted into a per- 

 fect savannah of slush and mire, and through which the carriers, as 

 well as the beasts of burden, had' the greatest difficulty in passing. 

 Men fell out of the ranks; valuable bales of cloth, cases of powder 

 and provisions were again and again, through the carelessness or 

 stupidity of the carriers, allowed to get wet — no slight disaster; and 

 what with the swollen streams and turgid pools, Stanley, who worked 

 with almost superhuman energy, found the greatest difficulty in get- 

 ting his caravan through at all. At the rate of less than a mile an 

 hour, day after da}', it dragged its slow- length along, and it was watli 

 feelings of unusual relief that Stanley, with his men suffering from 

 dysentery and other ills contracted from the long march through forty 

 miles of w^ater, sometimes four feet in depth, arrived on the 4th of 

 May at Rehenneko and encamped on the hilly slopes of the Usagara 

 country. 



On May 22d two Arabs traveling w^est joined their caravans to 

 Stanley's, and, leaving the uplands behind, together they crossed the 

 absolutely w'aterless and shadeless desert plain of Marenga Mkali. 

 This wilderness passed, they found themselves in Ugogo, amid fields of 



