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July, Marching again tlirougli similar country, we reached the Ma- 



1873. bunguru niiUah, the westernmost affluent of the Euaha, about 

 sunset. Even at this period of the dry season it was almost a 

 river, stretches of its channel a mile or two in leno-th beinw full 

 of water, and sejiarated from each other only by sand-bauks and 

 bars of rock from fifty to a hundred yards wide. 



These creeks were now thirty yards across, and there were 

 signs of the water in flood spreading two hundred yards on 

 either side. I do not suppose it to be a permanent stream dur- 

 ing the rainy season, but more probably it goes off in freshets, 

 the whole country being very rocky, and therefore able to ab- 

 sorb but little water. 



On the road we interchanged greetings with an Arab cara- 

 van, and ascertained that an account of Dr. Livingstone having 

 returned to Unyanyembe was untrue ; but doubtless the man 

 who told us had been misinformed, and did not intentionally 

 deceive us. Numberless tracks of large game were passed, as 

 also bones of animals, one skull being that of a rhinoceros, fre- 

 quently met with in these districts. 



Our next day's march, also a double one, was through much 

 cultivated land, and, according to report, the country had once 

 been much more thickly populated ; but two or three years pre- 

 viously a party of wild Wanyamwezi had looted it, and destroyed 

 many villages. 



The men seemed delighted at getting toward the end of the 

 first portion of our journey, and during the latter part of this 

 day the kirangosis kept up a sort of recitative, the whole cara- 

 van joining in chorus with pleasing effect. Dillon and I start- 

 ed ahead of the caravan in search of sport ; but people from 

 villages a short distance in front had been about, and every 

 thing was scared, though fresh marks of antelope and buffalo 

 were abundant. 



We pitched our camp on the banks of a little ziwa imbos- 

 omed in grass, and covered with red, white, and yellow water- 

 lilies. Cattle being cheap, we purchased a bullock for our men ; 

 but the brute broke away and galloped off at a furious rate 

 when being driven into camp, and we had to give chase and 

 shoot him down. 



Jiwe la Singa (the rock of sofi grass) was the point to be 



