770 • OBJECTION TO FLAGS. 



For the next three days after leaving Chawende's they were 

 still in the same inundated fringe of bouga which surrounds the 

 lake, and on each occasion had to camp at nightfall wherever a 

 resting-place could be found in the jungle, reaching Chama's 

 village on the fourth day. A delay of forty-eight hours was 

 necessary, as Susi's wife fell ill ; and for the next few marches 

 she was carried in a kitanda. They met an Unyamwesi man 

 here, who had come from Kumbakumba's town in the Wa Ussi 

 district. He related to them how on two occasions the Wan- 

 yamwesi had tried to carry Chawende's town by assault, but had 

 been repulsed both times. But with the strong footing these 

 invaders have in the country, armed as they are with the much- 

 dreaded guns, it can only be a matter of time before the whole 

 rule, such as it is, passes into their hands. 



A few days brought them near to Chiwaie's town, which they 

 describe as a very strong place, fortified with a stockade and 

 ditch. Shortly before reaching it, some villagers tried to pick a 

 quarrel with them for carrying flags. It was their invariable 

 custom to make the drummer-boy, Majwara, march at their 

 head, whilst the Union Jack and the red colors of Zanzibar were 

 carried in a foremost place in the line. Fortunately a chief of 

 some importance came up and stopped the discussion, or there 

 might have been more mischief, for the men were in no temper 

 to lower their flag, knowing their own strength pretty well by 

 this time. Making their settlement close to Chiwaie's, they 

 met with much kindness, and were visited by crowds of the 

 inhabitants. 



Three days' journey brought them to Chiwaie's uncle's village ; 

 sleeping two nights in the jungle they made Chungu's, and in 

 another day's march found themselves, to their great delight, at 

 Kapesha's. 



They saw at this place a large quantity of iron and copper 

 wire being made by a party of Wanyamwesi. The process is 

 described as follows : A heavy piece of iron, with a funnel-shaped 

 hole in it, is firmly fixed in the fork of a tree. A fine rod is 

 then thrust into it, and a line attached to the first few inches 

 which can be coaxed through. A number of men haul on this 

 line, singing and dancing in tune, and thus it is drawn through 

 the first drill ; it is subsequently passed through others to render 



