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women travel with these caravans, for, owing to the short time November, 

 they are on the road, it is possible to manage domestic affairs ^^'<''- 

 without their aid. 



This day we had eleven hours' hard walking, and were very 

 glad indeed to camp. The height of the camp was three thou- 

 sand eight hundred and seventy feet above the sea, nearly two 

 thousand feet lower than our halting - place of the previous 

 night, and considerably more than two thousand below the 

 highest level we had crossed on this day's march. 



After a good shampooing from Jumali (" Man Friday," as I 

 called him, Jumah being the KisuahiH for Friday), I turned in 

 to enjoy my well-earned sleep. 



Five o'clock the next morning saw us on the move again. 

 Crossing the Balomba, we passed some cultivated ground and 

 villages perched upon small rocky hills, the huts correspond- 

 ing so exactly with the color of the red sandstone rocks that I 

 should not have noticed them but for curls of smoke rising into 

 the morning air. On through jungle, across torrent-beds and 

 streams, up and down we went, until we reached a level lying 

 between two mountains. 



Here there was much cultivation, the bottom being very fer- 

 tile ; and sugar-cane, Indian corn, and tobacco grew in profusion. 

 We endeavored to persuade some people working in the fields 

 to supply us with food, but they refused to enter into any com- 

 mercial transactions with us. 



Going empty away from these unsociable natives, we soon 

 afterward met a large caravan carrying two apologies for flags, 

 and bringing up the rear were some men wearing hats and 

 coats. 



They had a large stock of aguardiente ; and some had evi- 

 dently been engaged in lightening their loads that morning, be- 

 ing very overbearing and cpiarrelsome. First they attempted 

 to hustle us out of the road, and then behaved toward us gen- 

 erally in a very objectionable manner. One fellow knocked up 

 against me purposely, upon which I tripped just as purposely, 

 though seemingly by accident, and sent him sprawling with his 

 load, by way of a hint that he could not expect to have his own 

 way in every thing. 



We continued on the march until about two o'clock, when 



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