130 RUBAGA TO MEULI. 



appear to exist liere. An antelope (Antilope leucotis) proved a 

 welcome addition to our larder. 



Next morning we continued our journey between solid 

 walls of grass, which shut out all view ; park land, intercepted 

 by numerous morasses, followed, giving place in its turn to 

 open country, where a broad road is being made over the red 

 clay soil. This road leads to Bukrasa, a pretty, scattered 

 village, where we rested. A splendid view was obtained here 

 of Ugungu, the headquarters of Kangani, towards the lofty 

 mountain of Bova. After passing over a high hill we descended 

 to the brook Kairira, which, on our journey to Rubaga, we had 

 forded farther down, and we refreshed ourselves with its clear 

 icy cold water, which rushes over granite fragments. 



Shortly afterwards we reached Briaki, where we were to 

 pass the night, and, to our astonishment, we found there two 

 of our missing loads, but of course not the ones we wanted. 

 After a heavy thunderstorm had passed over us, I employed 

 the time in shooting guinea-fowl in order to provide food for 

 my men. Briaki is situated on the verge of a hill which 

 slopes down into a jungle of reed and grass. Swamps, over- 

 grown with sedges, intercept at places these grassy expanses, 

 and we only very seldom met with cultivated ground upon 

 the road, which, passing by the huts of Guru, brought us to 

 some outlying houses of the same village. Here we encamped 

 amongst thousands of mosquitos. This district is so thickly 

 populated that there was no chance of sport. 



Katikiro's man came back and told me that all my goods 

 had been sent off from Rubaga, and were on the way, but 

 that where they were was uncertain. He added that Katikiro 

 had confiscated all Mukasa's wives, as he had been the cause 

 of this confusion. We found quantities of Phaseolus lunatus 

 and P. mungo in the huts, as well as small stores of dried 

 locusts. 



From Guru the road leads through some mud runnels, but 

 the country is for the most part lightly wooded, and covered 

 with high termite hills. After a time we reached verdant 

 hills, on one of which was situated a small village inhabited 

 by Wahuma herdsmen. A number of dome-shaped huts, which 

 shelter both men and beasts, were surrounded by a high thorn 



