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CHAPTEE IX. 



Short years in Baganda. Boys' playthings in Africa. Eeflections. 

 Arrival of the men. Fervent thankfulness. An end of the weary 

 waiting. Jacoh Wainwright takes service under the Doctor. Pre- 

 parations for the journey. Flagging and illness. Great heat. Ap- 

 proaches Lake Tanganyika. The borders of Fipa. Lepidosirens and 

 vultures. Capes and islands of Lake Tanganyika. Higher mountains 

 Large bay. 



1st August, 1872. — A laege party of Baganda have come 

 to see what is stopping the way to Mtesa, about ten head- 

 men and their followers ; but they were told by an Arab in 

 Usui that the war with Mirambo was over. About seventy 

 of them come on here to-morrow, only to be despatched back 

 to fetch all the Baganda in Usui, to aid in fighting Mirambo. 

 It is proposed to take a stockade near the central one, and 

 therein build a battery for the cannon, which seems a wise 

 measure. These arrivals are a poor, slave-looking people, 

 clad in bark-cloth, " Mbuzu," and having shields with a boss 

 in the centre, round, and about the size of the ancient High- 

 landers' targe, but made of reeds. The Baganda already 

 here said that most of the newcomers were slaves, and 

 would be sold for cloths. Extolling the size of Mtesa's 

 country, they say it would take a year to go across it. 

 When I joked them about it, they explained that a year 

 meant five months, three of rain, two of dry, then rain again. 

 Went over to apply medicine to Nkasiwa's neck to heal the 



