With Flashlight and Rifle * 



"July i. March to Muega through \vet reed-grass. 

 After eight and a half hours, camp in Ouoamadi. All 

 the huts ruined empty ; some survivors tell us that here 

 alone seventv-ei^ht have died of hunger. Pouring rain. 



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"fitly 2. March to (iambo. Received by the village 

 chief, Maka bin Ali. Camp in Simbieri. The inhabitants 

 are very glad to trade for rice with different articles ; 

 amongst others, beautiful dance-aprons (" kissambo) " made 

 of reed-grass, hunting-nets, and such-like things. Here I 



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am at last able to buy a goat, after having lived almost 

 entirely upon rice until now. 



"fitly 4. From Simbirri to Mseko ; very cold, wet 

 march. The guide escapes, in the course of it, into 

 the high grass ; we lose our wav. In the forest-track 



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we find a lately murdered young Mseguha. March till 

 3 p.m. I reach Pangani with some of my people, but 

 the carriers do not arrive till July 5th, in the evening." 



The undertaking thus resulted in nothing, in spite 

 of great trouble, and my tents and utensils were ruined 

 by mould on account of the wet weather. For hunting 

 in grassy Useguha, quite special seasons must be 

 chosen ; and one must have native guides, who are verv 



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difficult to procure. . . . 



Apart from all these inconveniences, the traveller is 

 of course threatened by the always possible though 

 really quite unusual sudden revolts of the natives, or 

 else attacks by them. 



/ beliei'e, after many years experience o/ leading the 

 larger kind of private expeditious, that one can travel 



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