VIII.] CROSSING A DRY RIVER-BED. HI 



water, so tliat our supply of that necessary article should not be August, 

 cut off. Soon after sunset a few arrows were shot into camp ; ^^'^^• 

 and this hostile act being responded to by us with a few shots 

 at some dim and dusky objects outside, seemingly with good 

 effect, we were not again disturbed ; but we kept strict watch 

 and ward all night. 



By daylight we were away again, and crossed a dry river-bed, 

 the nominal boundary between Urguru and Unyanyembe, and 

 immediately afterward came upon clearings and villages sur- 

 rounded with heavy stockades, outside which w^ere ditches and 

 banks planted with the milk bush. 



We camped at Ituru — being now at last in Unyanyembe, 

 with the first stage of our journey across Africa nearly com- 

 pleted — and sent messengers to the Arab governor to inform 

 him of our arrival, etiquette requiring this formal notice before 

 entering an Arab settlement. 



