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porters. These had to be got in a bad season of the year, because it was in 

 the height of the rainy season. The expedition had also to engage a certain 

 number of men as the guard for this large body of porters. He thought, in 

 getting Bombay to be the chief of his soldiers, he would be all right, but unfor- 

 tunately he found that the days of Bombay had gone by. However, he would 

 not talk of his men, but rather of the country through which he had to 

 travel. 



" Well, they took two months to get their stores together; and just before 

 starting they were joined by Robert Moffat, grandson of the Rev. Dr Moffat, 

 and nephew of Dr. Livingstone. He was but a mere boy, but he had a man's 

 courage, and a great interest in the work in which they were engaged. As 

 an evidence of this, it should be mentioned that young Moffat sold the plan- 

 tation which belonged to him in order to risk his all in the path of African 

 exploration in which at that time, though he did not know it, his great uncle 

 had nobly fallen. Well, he went on with the advance part of the caravan, 

 and passed the Kingoni River on the 20th March, 1873, leaving Lieutenant 

 Murphy and young Moffat to bring on more of the porters, with the re- 

 mainder of the stores. He and Dr. Dillon marched till they came to Rehen- 

 neko. Notwithstanding the configuration of the country was well known, 

 they saw a good many curious things about the people. A short way from 

 the coast one was just as thoroughly amongst savage tribes as he was in the 

 heart of Africa. The natives carried spears shod with bone, and wore kilts 

 made of the fibres of grass, pretty like those worn in the interior. Then the 

 advanced caravan came to the swamp of which they had heard the most ter- 

 rible accounts. Indeed, they had been told that there was scarcely any get- 

 ting across it. But he had found that when difficulties were boldly faced 

 they always became easier. They did set their face to the obstacle, and 

 they got over this swamp without injury. But in order to pass through the 

 mud and water they took five hours and a half to make three miles. For in- 

 stance, they had to drag their donkeys out of holes, and were continually 

 fighting and striving to get along these few miles. There were in all twenty 

 or thirty miles of this sort of country to work across. 



" On the 1st of May, 1873, Dr. Dillon and he arrived at Rehenneko, which 

 was just past the swamp in question, on the eastern slopes of the mountains. 

 There they formed their camp on the top of a small hill rising from the lower 

 level, and waited for a whole month before the rest of the caravan joined 

 them. The natives were civil to them, because they considered the travellers 

 as very powerful, though, as a rule, the people did not bear the best of cha- 

 racters, having repeatedly robbed smaller parties. There was nothing pecu- 

 liar about their clothes, except they wore necklaces of brass wire standing 

 out horizontally, and long bracelets coiled round their wrists up to the elbow, 

 these being of thick brass wire. Towards the end of May he heard that the 



