176 REPORT—1874. 
Aquamoos, and to the successful attack on the piratical island of Duffo in 1870 ; 
and then described the confidence of the Haussas and Yorubas in Sir J. Glover, 
and their arrival from Lagos to join him; the assembly of the Beach tribes at the 
mouth of the Volta at Addah Fort, and of the Aquapims, Crobboes, and Crepees at 
Blappah under Major Sartorius, the crossing of the Volta (23rd to 25th December), 
and the successful fights at Farah and Adidoomay. He then alluded to the causes 
of Sir J. Glover’s return over the Volta, and described the incidents of the march 
through Crobboe, Aquapim, and Akim to Ashanti, with the crossing the Prah on 
the 15th January, and the taking of Abogoo, Bangsoo, Towassy, Connummo, and 
Odsomassie, and the different attempts made to communicate with the main body 
under Sir Garnet Wolseley—amongst them, the passage of the Anoon river by 
Sartorius. The presence of Sir Garnet’s force in Coomassie was communicated by 
two fugitive slaves from Boankra. After breaking all communication with their 
rear, the column marched forward, arriving at Essidnimpon, where Major Sartorius 
set off to open communication with the main body. The author then described the 
arrival of the Glover column in Coomassie, the appearance of that town, and the 
dissatisfaction of the native contingent at leaving it so hurriedly. He sketched 
the return map to the coast, and summed up the assistance rendered, in his opinion, 
to the main body by the operations of the contingent. The languages of the native 
allies, the products of their country, their style of living, and the supply of gold 
were briefly mentioned. 
East-African Expedition. Extracts from Lieutenant CamEron’s Journal. 
The portion read (which had then just come to this country) included the details 
of Lieut, Cameron’s journey from Kwihara (Unyanyembe) on the 11th November, 
18738, to his arrival at Kawele (Ujiji) at the end of March, 1874, the chief object 
of his explorations being the recovery of the journal and map reported by Living- 
stone’s men to have been left at the latter place. Various circumstances delayed 
the regular prosecution of this journey until the 2nd January, 1874, when Lieut. 
Cameron started on a line between the routes taken by Burton and Stanley, skirt- 
ing the territory of Mirambo, a chief who is much more powerful than the Arabs 
represent, and whose inroads have brought desolation to the whole district. West 
of Shikurah, the country, though flat, was lovely ; trees grew as if planted by a 
pretele gardener, and green turf reached to the banks of the Neombe, a tributary 
of the Malagarazi, as wide as the Thames at Abingdon. Two days after leaving 
Kwihara the country gradually became more elevated, outcrops of granite, almost 
precipitous, and brawling torrents being met with. These unite to form the Mtumbo, 
a tributary of the Sindé. On the 22nd January the road led over a country covered 
with sheets and blocks of granite or gneiss, but well wooded and fertile ; and after 
crossing some small rivers, the party encamped near the village of Ma’n Como, the 
chief of Uvenda, 3573 feet above the sea, past which the march was through a moun- 
tainous country affording splendid views. All this district is depopulated by the 
slave trade. On the 2nd February they crossed the Sindé by a natural grass bridge, 
half a mile long (the river itself thainie only 100 yards wide), beneath which hippo- 
potami pass from end toend. The hill-country ends abruptly on the right bank of 
this river, and on the other side is the well-cultivated plain inhabited by the 
Wavinza. 
Continuing the march to the banks of the Malagarazi, Lieut. Cameron reached 
Ugaga on the 7th February, thus, for the first time, coming on the route traversed 
by Burton and Speke in 1858. He crossed the river with his party on the 10th, 
the operation taking five hours, owing to the primitive nature of the canoes, 
although the stream was but 30 yards wide; and on the 13th entered the 
Ukaranga country, the villages of which are principally supported by the manufac- 
ture of the salt abounding in the black soil. After crossing the Rusugi and the 
Ruguva, the land road to Ujiji was found to be impracticable on account of the 
rains, and the party made for the shores of Lake Tanganyika, embarking on the 
21st at Ukaranga in some fine large boats, and being hospitably received at Ujiji 
by the Waswahili and Wamrima inhabitants, traders and settlers of Arab extrac- 
tion from the coast. ; 
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