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Ugogo country the various Sultans and chiefs were clamorous for presents. 

 Food was plentiful, and the weather fine, but the major portion of the donkeys 

 died. The horses had early succumbed to the climate. The population was 

 very numerous, and at every village hundreds of natives crowded to see the 

 Masungu (white men). The Wahumba, a tribe of shepherds, evoked the 

 traveller's admiration. 



" The men are positively handsome, tall, with small heads, the posterior 

 parts of which project considerably. One will look in vain for a thick lip or 

 a flat nose amongst them ; on the contrary, the mouth is exceedingly well cut, 

 delicately small ; the nose is that of the Greeks, and so universal was this 

 peculiar feature that I at once named them the Greeks of Africa. Their 

 necks are long and slender, on which their small heads are poised most grace- 

 fully. Athletes from their youth, shepherd-bred, and intermarrying among 

 themselves, thus keeping the race pure, any of them would form a fit subject 

 for the sculptor who would wish to immortalise in marble an Antinous, a 

 Hylas, a Daphnis, or an Apollo. The women are as beautiful as the men 

 are handsome. They have clear ebon skins, not coal-black, but of an inky 

 hue. Their ornaments consist of spiral rings of brass, pendant from the ears, 

 brass ring collars about the neck, and a spiral cincture of brass-wire about 

 their loins, for the purpose of retaining the calf and goat skins, which are 

 folded about their bodies, and depending from the shoulder, shade one half of 

 the bosom, and fall to the knees." 



In the Ugogo country Mr. Stanley's caravan was joined by those of two 

 Arab traders, Sheikhs Thani and Hamed, and he had ample opportunity of 

 observing how the Arabs are compelled to pay heavy black mail to every 

 chief who is in a position to demand it. The contrasts of travel in Africa are 

 very striking. Before reaching the country of Ugogo the party had to force 

 their way through thirty miles of swamp, and flooded streams and moors. 

 The last week of travel, before reaching the district of Unyanyembe, the 

 party suffered from hunger and thirst, and the heat of the sun was all but 

 unsufferable. They reached Kwikuru, two miles south of Talbor, the chief 

 Arab settlement of Unyanyembe, on the 21st of June, and hungry and jaded 

 as they were, they managed to enter it with banners flying and trumpets 

 blowing, and the discharge of fire-arms. Outside the town they " saw a long 

 line of men in clean shirts, whereat we opened our charged batteries, and fired 

 a volley of small arms, such as Kwikuru seldom heard before. The pagazis 

 (carriers) closed up, and adopted the swagger of veterans. The soldiers 

 blazed away uninterruptedly, while I, seeing that the Arabs were advancing 

 towards me, left the ranks, and held my hand, which was immediately grasped 

 by Sheikh Sayd-bin-Salim, one of the two chief dignitaries of Unyanyembe, 

 and then by about two dozen other people, and thus our entree into Unyan- 

 yembe was effected." 



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