420 KINDANY. 



after a fashion the subjects of Zanzibar ; their jemida acknowl- 

 edges the authority of the sultan, and their insignificant customs 

 are presided over by an officer from Zanzibar. 



The animals which had been conveyed to the coast in the 

 dhow were considerably knocked up by the voyage, and some 

 time elapsed while they were getting over their wounds and 

 bruises and fatigue. The delay was put in usefully, however, 

 in the manufacture of camels' saddles and repairing those for 

 the mules and buffaloes. 



Nature has been more lavish of her favors at Kindany than 

 at other points along the coast. The land is higher, and the 

 soil is almost half coral. " Coral rock underlies the whole 

 place," and the rills in this rock afford good water. A dense 

 tropical vegetation prevails on every hand, and conspicuous in 

 the various wonders of it stands the great baobab. Great num- 

 bers of large game are seen about the numerous water-pools, 

 and the nominal traders of the town have so little industry that 

 there is hardly anything to relieve the heathendom look of the 

 region. 



After enjoying innumerable promises of service without 

 receiving the slightest assistance, Livingstone set out on his 

 journey, bearing southward in the direction of the Rovuma 

 river, with a Somalie guide, who was to receive twenty dollars 

 for taking him as far as Nyomano, the confluence of the Loendi 

 and Rovuma. 



An enemy which the doctor had hoped to escape on this route 

 was in waiting for him, and before he had travelled a dozen 

 miles it was ascertained that the buffaloes and camels had been 

 bitten by the tsetse. The progress was painfully slow at best, 

 and it was a matter of serious anxiety to be threatened with so 

 great a disaster as the loss of his animals so early in the journey. 

 Being himself unused to camels, it was necessary to intrust them 

 to the Sepoys almost entirely, and it was soon apparent they 

 were exceedingly careless of the comfort and safety of their 

 charge. Added to this — true to the familiar maxim, that 

 " troubles never come singly " — the road they had to make lay 

 through dense jungles, where the axe must do its work before 

 the camels and buffaloes could possibly advance. 



The native occupants of this region are known as Makonde. 



