688 INSPIRING INFORMATION. 



When the march was resumed they passed on through Uka- 

 wendi, amid " the ruggedest scenes." We are told that the 

 young traveller had beheld in Africa a long and wearying way, 

 a hunger-begetting tramp, "all country," no villages, no people, 

 no food, only wild herds of buffaloes, and tracks of the 

 rhinoceros. Then by the village of Nzogera, chief of the 

 Wavinza, where food was bought and a guide obtained, and a 

 stunning blackmail levied to spice the kindness, and introducing 

 the white man into the ways of Uvinza. And a fair specimen 

 it was of the experiences of the next three days spent in crossing 

 this country : over and over were like taxes made before the 

 travellers reached the Malagarazi, where the Wavinza put their 

 final demands in the shape of ferriage, and Mr. Stanley was 

 permitted to shake the dust of their country off his feet, firmly 

 convinced that these same Wavinza were worse than the Ugogo, 

 worse than any people, unqualifiedly bad, masters in the Satanic 

 art of badness. 



While the prominent men of the caravan were congratulating 

 each other and their "master" on being out of Uvinza, another 

 caravan appeared from the direction of Ujiji ; this turned out a 

 caravan of Waguhha. When they came near, Mr. Stanley 

 asked the news, and was informed that a white man had just 

 arrived in Ujiji from Manyuema. He was startled, and his men 

 fully shared his astonishment, and questions and answers fol- 

 lowed quickly. 



"A white man ? " they asked. 



"Yes, a white man," was the reply. 



" How was he dressed ? " 



" Like the master," said the speaker, pointing to Mr. Stanley. 



" Is he young or old ? " 



" He is old ; he has white hair on his face, and is sick." 



" Where has he come from ?" 



"/From a very far country, away beyond Uguhha, called 

 Manyuema." 



" Indeed ! and is he stopping at Ujiji now?" 



"Yes, we saw him about eight days ago." 



"Do you think he will stop there until we see him?" 



" Don't know." 



"Was he ever in Ujiji before?" 



