590 RELIGIOUSLY VILLANOUS? 



emissaries of a semi-civilization had recorded their presence. 

 But it was inexpedient for even so bold a man to set out on 

 such a journey attended only by the five or six young men who 

 remained to him of his old escort ; and reluctant as he was to 

 depend on such an agency, he was obliged to embrace the oppor- 

 tunity which arose of continuing his labors under the protection 

 of Mohamad Bogharib, who had arranged to make his first 

 journey into the country within a short time. 



Securing canoes at Ujiji, he went along the eastern side of the 

 lake to the mouth of Kabogo river, just under the shadow of 

 the lofty mountain which lends its name to the stream. From 

 this point he was pulled across the lake and joined Mohamad 

 on Kasenge islet. Kasanga, the chief of this island, had gone 

 to fight the Goma. After a few days delay, during which a 

 relative of Kasanga was engaged to act as guide, and various 

 arrangements perfected, the whole party embarked from Kasenge 

 and slept that night, the 2d of August, on the mainland in a 

 copse of hooked thorn. Though his health was much improved, 

 the doctor was still very weak, and even the short march of 

 three and a half miles along the lake the next day fatigued him 

 greatly. 



The Arabs had begun their journey in all solemnity ; it is 

 marvellous how religiously a villanous work may be prosecuted. 

 Mohamad had killed a lamb in sacrifice to Hadrajee, and said 

 his prayers most devoutly, and they were fully under way. 

 Marching away from Tanganyika, they crossed first the Lo- 

 yumba, a river flowing into the lake, then across several of its 

 tributaries, on across a hilly region, between ranges of moun- 

 tains, to the Lobumba, which under a succession of names flows 

 with tortuous course into the Lualaba, far off in the northwest, 

 beyond Bambarre. The special localities could not be fixed 

 exactly, because of the unaccountable superabundance of names. 

 Countless small rivers crossed their path as they advanced. The 

 whole of August and twenty days of September were occupied 

 in reaching Bambarre, which until then had been the limit of 

 even the Arab travels. They had crossed many beautiful valleys 

 and splendid forests of majestic trees, and had seen such speci- 

 mens of cassava as they had hardly dreamed of before, and 

 penetrated quite into the heart of a country until very recently 



