654 "a handsome young savage." 



two or three snowy cowrie shells, carved pieces of wood, a small 

 goats-horn, some medicine, consecrated by the medicine-man of 

 the tribe, a fund of white or red beads, two or three pierced 

 Sungomazzi egg-beads, or a string of copper, and sometimes small 

 brass chains, which they have purchased from Arab traders." 



"A youthful Wasagara," continues Mr. Stanley, " with a 

 faint tinge of ochre embrowning the dull black hue of his face, 

 with four or five bright copper coins ranged over his forehead, 

 with a tiny gourd's neck in each ear, with a thousand ringlets, 

 well greased and ornamented with bits of brass, his head well 

 thrown back, his broad chest forward, with his muscular arms 

 and well-proportioned limbs, represents the beau-ideal of a 

 handsome young African savage." 



Little better than their eastern neighbors are the Wagogo, 

 whose territory joins that of the Wasagara on the west. It 

 was the 25th day of May when the energetic young traveller 

 entered the dangerous land of Ugogo. He had led his caravan 

 two hundred and seventy-eight miles. He had passed through 

 the territories of the Wakomi, Wakwere, Wadoe, Wasegura, 

 Wasagara, and Wohehe. Had crossed the rivers Kingani, 

 Ungerengere, Little Makata, Great Makata, Rudewa, and Mu- 

 kondokwa. He had discovered the sources of the Kingani, 

 the Wami, and the Mukondokwa rivers, and the Lake Ugombo. 

 Two horses and seventeen donkeys had died ; various articles 

 had disappeared under the pressure of circumstances or some- 

 body. Several pegazis had deserted, some had died, and Farqu- 

 har had been left behind sick. This was a new people, unlike 

 those among whom he had been, with new perils. A sterile 

 plateau, covered by the most clannish and covetous extortioners. 



A powerful tribe, possessing remarkable physical and mental 

 development, not unlike the familiar negro type in general ap- 

 pearance, the Wagogo is at the same time a tribe of proud, 

 ferocious men, looking with covetous eye on the goods of every 

 traveller, and ready on the slightest occasion to proceed to any 

 lengths of violence. Among these people Mr. Stanley was sub- 

 jected to the most unreasonable fines ; and although he was 

 well furnished with rifles, it was very manifest that in their own 

 fastnesses, as they were, and swarming in such vast numbers, 

 peace was well bought at any price. The villages were all for- 



