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ACROSS AFRICA. 



[Chap. 



November, 

 1875. 



We halted here to bathe in the stream, and gather fresh en- 

 ergy for the afternoon. 



Fearfully hard work was now beginning seriously to tell on 

 me, but I was wonderfully buoyed up by the knowledge that 

 every step was taking me nearer to the coast and to rest. My 

 head and legs, more especially the ankle I had sprained in Ulun- 

 •da, gave me much pain. 



I'EOI'LE OF KISANJI. 



After more hours of wearying clambering, we entered upon 

 an open plain, and, to my sorrow, I noticed that it was sur- 

 rounded by mountains which gave promise of hard labor on the 

 morrow. 



Shortly before sunset, we were near a village in the small dis- 

 trict of Kisanji, and here made our arrangements for sleeping 

 under some baobabs of which we had seen the first in the pass. 

 I was so exhausted that when the men took tlie opportunity of 

 having another bathe it was impossible for me to do the same, 

 being only fit t-o lie under the shade of a baobab-tree. 



Soon after settling down, a few men and women gathered 

 around to stare at us, and I was surprised at their small prcten- 



