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striking ; for no tents being pitched or huts built, we all biv- June, 

 ouacked in the open. 1873. 



Overhead was the sky, of a deep velvety blackness, studded 

 with innumerable silver and golden stars ; while the dusky fig- 

 ures, moving about among the tires, formed a weird and effect- 

 ive foreground, the smoke hanging like frosted silver among 

 the tree-tops. 



Ugogo was reached the next day, after a very tiresome march 

 of five hours across a country intersected by many nullahs, 

 which in the rainy season are temporary streams. 



When we arrived within the limits of cultivation, our men, 

 unable any longer to withstand the pangs of thirst, commenced 

 gathering water-melons of a very inferior and bitter sort ; but 

 some sharp-eyed Wagogo detected them, and demanded about 

 twenty times the value of what had been picked; and upon 

 camping at noon, our beasts were not allowed to be watered 

 until we had obtained leave by payment. 



tAKTlIEN I'OT, UGOGO. 



