CHAPTER XXVI. 



Lieutenant Cameron Starts from Ujiji — At Kasenge — Between the Rugumba and 

 the Lukuga — Dress of the Wabudjwa — Joins Trading Caravans — The Bam 

 barre Mountains — Crosses the Luama — Troubles at Karungu — Leaves for 

 Ktvakasongo — Reaches Nyangwe. 



IN May, 1874, as we noted in a previous chapter, Lieutenant Cameron 

 started from Ujiji, to proceed as directly as he could across the Manyema 

 country for Nyangwe, with a view of descending the Congo from that point 

 to the West Coast. Having discharged such of his men as were afraid or 

 unwilling to proceed, and after packing up a map of the Tanganyika, and a 

 map of Dr. Livingstone's, which he had found at Ujiji, and some other small 

 things, and despatching them to the coast, he set out for Kasenge, on the 

 west shore of the lake, in company with a half-caste Arab, called Syde Mezrui, 

 whom he had engaged to show him the road to Nyangwe. His journey to 

 Kasenge was uneventful, except that the night during which they crossed 

 from the east to the west it blew a fierce gale. They left the shore of the 

 lake on the 31st of May, and the same day reached Ruanda, the chief town 

 of Uguhha, which was very populous. The people formed a regular lane all 

 the way through the town, in the midst of which they had to march. At 

 Ruanda the traveller got extra porters to carry some of his loads, as the men 

 of the caravan were all out of condition, on account of having been so long 

 without marching ; he also bought some goats here, as they were cheap and 

 plentiful. The chief at Ruanda pretended to be a man of considerable influ- 

 ence, and independent of any control, though Cameron afterwards found that 

 he was feudatory to Kasongo, the great chief of Urua. 



The day after leaving Ruanda, they crossed the Rugumba, a stream of 

 considerable size, flowing swiftly into the Tanganyika, and with many small 

 particles of quartz glittering in the sunshine, brought down from the moun- 

 tains of Ugoma, which ended abruptly on their right. On this march, one of 

 the men, in crossing a small water-course, fell down, and one of the sticks, 

 forming the cradle for his load, ran into his eye, thus completely destroy- 

 ing it. Owing to this, and the illness of the other men, fresh helpers had to 

 be engaged. They then made a march of four or five days along the watershed, 

 between the Rugumba and the Lukuga, passing many streams going towards 

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