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refrained from a useless sacrifice of life, and left tbe amphibious 

 horde in peace. 



The route he had chosen to reach Ugogo was a new one, never 

 before traveled by a white man. This new route was thickly 

 populated, which proved to be of no small advantage, for it enabled 

 him to buy meat and save his herd of goats, which would be 

 needed for food when the interior should be reached. The natives 

 were in their fields, at heedless labor, men and women in the 

 scantiest costumes, compared to which Adam and Eve, in their 

 fig-leaf apparel, would have been en grande tenue. Nor were 

 they at all abashed by the devouring gaze of men who were 

 strangers to clotheless living bodies ; they did not seem to com- 

 prehend why inordinate curiosity should be returned with more 

 than interest. They left their work as the Wasungu ( white men ) 

 drew nigh : such hybrids in solar topees, white flannels, and 

 horse-boots were they ! Had the Wasungu been desirous of 

 studying the outlines of anatomy and physiology what a rich 

 field was here! They laughed and giggled, and pointed their 

 index fingure at this and that, which to them seemed so strange 

 and bizarre. 



After crossing the Kingani they soon came to a village called 

 Rosako, where they camped, and Stanley was much annoyed by 

 the obtrusive curiosity of the natives. He says : " Among other 

 experiments which I was about to try in Africa, was that of a 

 good watch-dog on any unmannerly people who would insist upon 

 coming into my tent at untimely hours and endangering valuables. 

 Especially did I wish to try the effect of its bark on the mighty 

 Ugogo, who, I was told by certain Arabs, would lift the door of 

 the tent and enter whether you wished them or not ; who would 

 chuckle at the fear they inspired, and say to you, ' Hi, hi, white 

 man, I never saw the like of you before ; are there many more 

 like you? where do you come from?' Also would they take hold 

 of your watch and ask you with a cheerful curiosity, ' What is 

 this for, white man? ' to which you, of course, would reply that it 

 was to tell you the hour and minute. But the Ugogo, proud of 

 his prowess, and more unmannerly than a brute, would answer 



