DISCOVERY OF THE VICTORIA N'YANZA. 23 



the cheaper sorts, stocks the country with them, and 

 thus makes them common. 



This day, the 17th, like all the preceding ones, is 

 delightful, and worthy of drawing forth an exclama- 

 tion, like the Indian Griffs, of " what a fine day this 

 is again!" We started at 7 A.M., and travelled 

 thirteen miles, with fine bracing air, so cold in the 

 morning that my fingers tingled with it. We were 

 obliged here to diverge from the proper road via 

 Sarenge to avoid a civil war the one before alluded 

 to, and to escape which I had engaged the second 

 guide between two young chiefs, brothers of the 

 "Wamanda tribe, who were contending for the reins 

 of government on the principle that might ought to 

 give the stronger right. Our new course led us out 

 of the Msalala into the Uyombo district, which is 

 governed by a sultan called Mihambo. He paid me 

 a visit and presented a sheep a small present, for he 

 was a small chief, and could not demand a kuhongo. 

 I gave in return one shukka Amerikan and one 

 shukka kiniki. Here all the people were very busily 

 engaged in their harvest, cutting their jowari, and 

 thrashing it out with long sticks. The whole country 

 lies in long waves crested with cropping little hills, 

 thickly clad with small trees and brushwood. In the 

 hollows of these waves the cultivation is very luxuri- 

 ant. Here I unfortunately had occasion to give my 

 miserable Goanese cook-boy a sound dressing, as the 

 only means left of checking his lying, obstinate, 



