CHAPTEK XIII. 

 MPOBOBO AND EAST SHORE, ALBERT EDWARD. 



AN the 4th of August, 1894, I left the Salt lake 

 ^ on a journey of which I knew nothing, and 

 which had never been traversed by a European. 

 Just at the last moment I found that two of my 

 best men were unable to come. They had de- 

 veloped horrible sores on the feet, and I was 

 obliged to leave them in charge of the headman 

 at the Salt lake station. I had forty men and 

 one woman. This woman had married one of my 

 askari at Kampala and was allowed to come on 

 condition that she looked after the cattle en route. 

 I think, now, that it was rather a foolhardy 

 thing to start with so few, as a journey of this kind 

 has usually been undertaken only by caravans of 

 not less than a hundred men. Still, I certainly 

 could not have managed to go by the same route 

 with a larger number on account of the difficulty 

 of supplies ; and as I did bring all except one to 

 Ujiji in safety and health I have no right to 

 complain of my fortune. x 



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