68 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



with Speke, whom they besought to join them in expelling or 

 destroying the guerrilla chief. Speke was therefore put to it 

 again, for the interior tribes generally sympathized with Manua 

 Sera, and had the English explorer combined with the Arabs 

 he would have certainly met with disaster. 



After passing Masange and Zimbili, Speke put up a night in 

 the village of Iviri, on the northern border of Unyanyembe, and 

 found several officers there, sent by Mkisiwa, to enforce a levy 

 of soldiers to take the field with the Arabs at Kaze against 



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Manua Sera; to effect which they walked about ringing bells, 

 and bawling out that if a certain percentage of all the inhabitants 

 did not muster, the village chief would be seized and theirplan- 

 tations confiscated. Speke's men all mutinied here for increase 

 of ration allowances. To find themselves food with, he had 

 given them all one necklace of beads each per diem since leaving 

 Kaze, in lieu of cloth, which hitherto had been served out for 

 that purpose. It was a very liberal allowance, because the 

 Arabs never gave more than one necklace to every three men, 

 and that, too, of inferior quality to what Speke served. He 

 brought them to at last by starvation, and then went on. Dip- 

 ping down into a valley between two clusters of granitic hills, 

 beautifully clothed with trees and grass, studded here and there 

 with rich plantations, they entered the district of Usagari, and 

 on the second day forded the Goinbe Nullah again in its upper 

 course, called Kuale. Here Capt. Speke met with a chief whose 

 wife was an old friend, formerly a waiting-maid at Ungugu, 

 whom he had met on previous voyages. Her husband, the 

 chief, was then absent, engaged in war with a neighbor, so 

 the queen gave Speke such assistance as enabled him to avoid 

 joining either the Arabs or Manua Sera, without inciting their 

 hostility. 



On Christmas day the expedition halted to await the arrival of 

 three hundred porters that had been sent for by a chief named 

 Musa, who had accompanied Speke for several weeks, giving 

 much valuable service as guide and interpreter. The expedition 

 did not move again until January 2d, the interim being employed 



