Ruengo 



lachrimcB. I took the chief on one side and let 

 him look through my field-glasses. I also showed 

 him my ammunition and taught him how to load 

 the rifle. Overcome with momentary pleasure, I 

 steered his childlike mind from its true bearing, 

 so that the righteous wrongs of his savage subject 

 were forgotten. I also remunerated the beaten man 

 si(b rosa, and did not hesitate to give my headman 

 a "telling off." 



I spent the afternoon following up a herd of 

 " kongoni " buck, very common in these parts. I 

 slept well, after being on my legs for eleven hours 

 and covering thirty miles in all. This was the 

 first camp which I had found free of mosquitoes. 

 There was an unusually long sick list of porters 

 to be doctored, and my medicine was getting very 

 low; and though I only marched nine miles the 

 following day, quite thirty-five per cent, of my 

 porters fell out of their places sick. I could not 

 proceed further without help, so I sent for the chief, 

 Mr, Kabtoto, and on my promising to mend his 

 watch for him he lent me ten porters. I found 

 water scarce and no game, so I was extra pleased 

 to move on the next morning to my next resting- 

 place, called Ruengo, a matter of three and a half 

 hours' march. 



As a heavy haze tempered the fervour of the 

 African sun, I arrived in camp comparatively cool 

 and very fit. Throughout all this country I found 

 nothing but chiefs, who spring out of nowhere, and 

 after insisting on shaking hands, would accompany 



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