CHAPTER XV 



FROM KIVU TO TANGANYIKA 



* AUons ! we must not stop here, 

 However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient 



this dwelling, we cannot remain here. 

 However shelter'd this port and however calm these 



waters, we must not anchor here. 

 However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us, we 

 are permitted to receive it but a little while.' 



Walt Whitman. 



In an earlier chapter I mentioned the fact that, 

 when we started from Uganda to travel through the 

 Congo State, we had to increase our caravan by- 

 porters laden with cloth and beads. We took with 

 us several loads of ordinary white trade-cloth — 

 ' Americani,' as it is called — and the best beads that 

 Entebbe could produce. The Indian trader who 

 supplied them said that they were good enough for 

 Congo savages, and we were foolish enough to 

 believe him. 



In the old days of African travel no doubt any 

 kind of cloth and beads of any size or colour were 

 welcomed everywhere, but the old order has changed. 

 It is true that our beads went like hot cakes round 

 the shores of Lake Albert Edward, but when we 

 came to the Volcanoes and southwards, the natives 



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