DISCOVERY OF THE VICTORIA N'YANZA. 69 



On the 7th we made a march of fourteen miles, pass- 

 ing our second station in Urima by two miles, partly to 

 avoid the chief of that village, a testy, rude, and dis- 

 agreeable man, who, on the last occasion, inhospitably 

 tried to turn us out of a hut in his village, because 

 we would not submit to his impudent demand of a 

 cloth for the accommodation a proceeding quite at 

 variance with anything we had met in our former 

 receptions, and we resisted the imposition with per- 

 tinacity equal to his own. Besides this, by coming 

 on the little extra distance, we arrived at the best 

 and cheapest place for purchasing cows and jembes. 



Xext day we halted. I purchased two jembes for 

 one shukka Amerikan, but could not come to any terms 

 with these grasping savages about their cows, although 

 their country teems with them, and they are sold at 

 wonderfully cheap prices to ordinary traders. They 

 would not sell to me unless I gave double value for 

 them. The Fauna of this country is most disappoint- 

 ing. Nearly all the animals that exist here are also 

 to be found in the south of Africa, where they range 

 in far greater numbers. But then we must remember 

 that a caravan route usually takes the more fertile 

 and populous tracks, and that many animals might 

 be found in the recesses of the forests not far off, 

 although there are so few on the line. The elephants 

 are finer here than in any part of the world, and have 

 been known, I hear, to carry tusks exceeding 500 Ib. 

 the pair in weight. The principal wild animals be- 



