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ACROSS AFRICA. 



[Chap. 



April, 

 1874. 



already well paid, I complied with their request, for they were 

 very good and useful men. 



Passing Has Chakuola on the Oth of April — the rocks near 

 which were composed of a sort of pudding-stone, looking as 

 though it had originally been liquid clay, and had become 

 mixed with small stones— we came to the river Chakuola and 

 Makakomo islands, which the guides informed me had been a 

 portion of the main-land within their remembrance. Kapoopia, 

 the Sultan of the islands, was a chief of some importance. 



IJROTIIEK ROOKS. 



At Ras Makurungwe the rocks consisted of masses of granite 

 seventy or eighty feet high, with perpendicular sides ; and at 

 Kowenga Island there were huge blocks strewed about in the 

 utmost confusion. When we landed, the women and children 

 ran into the jungle, and the men cleared for action, each having 

 his bow and half a dozen arrows ready, and about twenty more 

 arrows in his quiver. 



Squalls and rain. during the night and a wild-looking morn- 

 ing delayed our start ; and, on beginning to pack up, one of the 

 askari accidentally shot himself in getting into the boat. The 

 bullet entered under tlie right arm, and, passing either close in 

 front of or behind the shoulder-blade, came out at the lower 

 inner aiiijle. lie was so fat that it was difficult to (let(M'miue 



