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"When Air. Stanley arrived at his next camping ground — Mkwenkwe — lie 

 found that his attendants, who had gone before to make preparations, had deserted 

 in a body, and returned to Kwihara. To make matters worse, he was suffering 

 frornfever. The awkward position in which he foundhimself rousedhis indomit- 

 able pluck, and enabled him to throw off the fever which oppressed him ; and the 

 men who stood true to him having collected the scattered fugitives, after a couple 

 of days' rest he continued his march. After reaching Kasegera, two of his 

 followers deserted. "When brought back, he had them tied up and flogged, and 

 then fastened them together with a chain. This mode of treatment he found 

 to be quite successful in quelling insubordination. He says in regard to it : 

 " I was determined to try a new method, not having the fear of Exeter Hall 

 before my eyes ; and I am happy to say to-day, for the benefit of all future 

 travellers, that it is the best method yet adopted, and that I will never tread 

 in Africa again without a good long chain." A few days after this, Shaw the 

 Englishman broke down, partly from illness and partly from fear, and was sent 

 back to Unyanyembe. 



The following extract gives a graphic picture of the country he was 

 marching through : — " We were about entering the immense forest that 

 separates Unyanyembe from the district of Ugunda. In lengthy, undulating 

 waves, the land stretched before us — the new land which no European knew — 

 the unknown mystic land. The view which the eyes hurry to embrace as we 

 ascend some ridge higher than another, is one of the most disheartening which 

 can be conceived. Away, one beyond another, were the lengthy rectilinear 

 ridges clad in the same garb — woods, woods, woods ; forests, leafy branches, 

 green and yellow, and dark-red and purple ; then an undefinable ocean, bluer 

 than the bluest sky. The horizon all round shows the same scene — a sky 

 dropping into the depths of the endless forest, with but two or three tall giants 

 of the forest, higher than their neighbours, which are conspicuous in their out- 

 lines, to break the monotony of the scene. On no one point do oar eyes rest 

 with pleasure ; they have viewed the same outlines, the same forest, and the 

 same horizon, day after day, week after week ; and again, like Noah's dove, 

 from wandering over a world without a halting-place, they return wearied with 

 the search." 



At Ugunda Mr. Stanley had an interview with a friendly chief, Maman- 

 yara, "a tall, stalwart man, with a pleasing face. He carried in his hand a 

 couple of spears, and, with the exception of a well-worn barsati round his 

 loins, he was naked. Three of his principal men and himself were invited to 

 seat themselves on my Persian carpet. They began to admire it excessively, 

 and asked if it came from my country. "Where was my country ? Was it 

 large ? How many days to it ? Was I a king ? Had I many soldiers ? were 

 questions quickly asked, and as quickly answered ; and the ice being broken, 

 the chief being as candid as I was myself, he grasped my forefinger and middle 



