278 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



Kituta, in one of Sefu's dhows, which was a really 

 good boat. 



During this journey I was very weak, and 

 scarcely able to move. One effect of the Tangan- 

 yika fever is to produce loss of memory and some- 

 times other curious things. For two days I had 

 a series of horrible mental visions over which my 

 will seemed to have no power, and which suc- 

 ceeded one another continually. 



On passing Cape Kabogo, which is a very promi- 

 nent double headland (called by the Arabs husband 

 and wife), the boatmen recited a long address to 

 it, and flung into the water a little flour, a few 

 beads, and a doty of cloth. At and from Kungwe 

 promontory the hills come down to the water's 

 edge and are covered with scrub. Amongst these 

 hills are many curious little rockbound harbours, 

 usually with shallow water and a strip of sand. 

 At last we again met Europeans at the mission 

 station of Karemi, where there is probably the 

 best house in all Central Tropical Africa ; it is two 

 stories high and built of kiln-dried bricks, and 

 roofed with tiles. The mission is on the edge 

 of a rich alluvial plain of enormous extent, but 

 is not, I am afraid, at all a healthy place. After 

 receiving great kindness from the French mission- 

 aries, the first Europeans I had seen since leaving 

 Buddu, we started with a strong wind southwards. 



We kept on till dusk, making an enormous day's 

 sail, and eventually reached a small island. A 



