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ing to execute any orders I might give them : they 

 looked upon me as their Ma, Bap (mother and father, 

 a Hindostani expression, significant of everything, or 

 entire dependence on one as a son on his parents), 

 and considered my interests their interests. 



On the 16th, we started at 6 A.M., and travelled 

 eleven miles to Ukamba, a village in the district of 

 Msalala, which is held by a tribe called Wamanda. 

 The first four miles lay over the cultivated plain of 

 Ibanda, till we arrived at the foot of a ridge of hills, 

 which, gradually closing from the right, intersects the 

 road, and runs into a hilly country extending round the 

 western side of the aforesaid plain. We now crossed 

 the range, and descended into a country more closely 

 studded with the same description of small hills, but 

 highly cultivated in the valleys and plains that sepa- 

 rate them. About twelve miles to the eastward of 

 Ukamba live a tribe called Wasongo, and to the west, 

 at twenty miles' distance, are the Waquandas. To- 

 day was fully verified the absolute futility of endeav- 

 ouring to march against time in these wild countries. 

 The lazy pagazis finding themselves now, as it were, 

 in clover, a country full of all the things they love, 

 would not stir one step after 11 A.M. Were time of no 

 consequence, and coloured beads in store, such travel- 

 ling as this would indeed be pleasant. For the coun- 

 try here, so different from the Ujiji line, affords not 

 only delightful food for the eyes, but abounds in flesh, 

 milk, eggs, and vegetables of every variety. The son 



