6 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



and a little slave child whom he had also purchased 

 and employed in looking after the general wardrobe, 

 and in cooking his porridge dinner, or fetching water 

 and gathering sticks. On the line of march he car- 

 ried Bombay's sleeping-hide and water-gourd. 



And now I am ready to lead you over my second 

 voyage of discovery the one which, to my mind, is 

 by far the most satisfactory, and I trust it will be so 

 to you; for it takes you into the richest part of 

 Africa, and discloses to you the probable, and I be- 

 lieve true, source of that mighty stream the Nile; 

 and has almost, if not entirely, solved a problem 

 which it has been the first geographical desideratum 

 of many thousand years to ascertain, and the ambition 

 of the first monarchs of the world to unravel. 



KAZE, UNYANYEMBE, UNYAM&EZI, 

 9th July 1858. 



The caravan, consisting of one kirangozi, twenty 

 pagazis, ten Belooches as guard, Bombay, Mabruk, 

 and Gaetano, escorting a kit sufficient for six weeks, 

 left Kaze to form camp at noon. The Belooches 

 were all armed with their own guns, save one, who 

 carried one of Captain Burton's double rifles, an 

 eight-bore by W. Richards. I took with me for 

 sporting purposes, as well as for the defence of the 

 expedition, one large five-bore elephant gun, also 

 kindly lent by Captain Burton ; and of my own, one 

 two-grooved four-gauge single rifle, one polygrooved 



