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hand and neither spear nor gun, was foolish 

 enough to go off by himself one night, and I 

 never saw him again. Next morning I went all 

 round the place and found every one had fled 

 except one chief, who was too ill to move. I was 

 in a terrible state of mind, but I did not think I 

 was justified in punishing this man for a crime 

 which he had apparently not committed, and we 

 could not remain. The incident shows the utter 



Fig. 14. — Scenery in the Central Watershed. 



folly of the Suahili, who can never be taught 

 caution, though he is not brave ; and it greatly 

 affected the spirits of every, one. 



Shortly after this we descended into the valley 

 of the Euizi river, which here flows through a 

 broad alluvial plain and interrupts the mountains. 

 This river rises in the Katara, a deep swamp valley 

 in the hills, along which we passed later on, then 

 emerging from a narrow pass into the plain, forms 

 the broad and difficult Wamaganga swamp. From 



