8 TKAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



beer), that always precede a journey, hunt, or, other 

 adventure without leaving a word to explain the 

 reason of their going, or even the time which they 

 purposed being absent. 



The absence of the pagazis on the 10th July caused 

 a halt, for none of them appeared again until after 

 dark. The bad example set by Shaykh Said in. 

 shirking from this journey, is distressingly evident 

 in every countenance. The Belooches, gloomy, de- 

 jected, discontented, and ever grumbling, form as 

 disagreeable a party as was ever the unfortunate lot 

 of any man to command. 



"We started on the journey northwards at 7 A.M. on 

 the llth, and, soon clearing the cultivated plain, bade 

 adieu to Unyanyembe. The track passed down a 

 broad valley, with a gentle declination, which was 

 full of tall but slender forest-trees, and was lined on 

 either side by low hills. We passed some pools of 

 water, and also two Wasukumas caravans, one of 

 ivory, destined for the coast, and the other conveying 

 cattle to the Unyanyembe markets. Though the 

 country through which we passed was wild and un- 

 inhabited, we saw no game but a troop of zebras, 

 which were so wild that I could not get near them. 

 After walking fifteen miles, we arrived at the district 

 of Ulekampuri, entered a village, and I took up my 

 quarters in a negro's hut. My servants and porters 

 did the best they could by pigging with the cattle, or 

 lying in the shade under the eaves of the huts. "Up 



