LECTURE IN GLASGOW CITY HALL. 691 



going four or five miles his course was stopped with vegetation. The depth 

 of the river was three fathoms, and the width nine hundred yards ; and the 

 current was running at the rate of one and a half to two knots an hour. Pass- 

 ing round the lake he came across two or three trading stations of Arabs. 

 They talked about the ivory being pretty cheap, but slaves were very dear, 

 a slave actually costing about ten yards of calico. 



" Going back to Ujiji he found a caravan about to proceed to the coast, 

 and with it he sent four trusty men with Dr. Livingstone's journals and map, 

 which he sent to the Consul, who received them safely. Passing Lukuga, he 

 came to Uguhha, where the natives were chiefly remarkable for the elaborate 

 way in which they dressed their hair, and the elaborate way in which the 

 women were tattooed. The process of tatooing the females began when they 

 were about eight years of age, and was finished when they were sixteen or 

 seventeen. It took eight years or more to complete a lady's toilette, but once 

 done, it lasted for life. Leaving Uguhha, he passed a very remarkable hot 

 spring. In this country the upper orders were dressed similarly to those he 

 had last seen, but the women of the lower orders were in the habit of perfor- 

 ating their upper lip, by inserting in it a small piece of stone or wood, which 

 they gradually increased in size till sometimes the lip projected a couple of 

 inches from the face. Their tattooing was of a remarkable description, and 

 looked very much as if their faces had been scratched by a cat and then the 

 black rubbed in. 



" Crossing the Bambarre Mountains he arrived at Manyema, and at that 

 place he was struck with the remarkable ingenuity displayed by the inha- 

 bitants in the working of the iron that was to be found in abundance in the 

 district. He next visited Kwakasongo, where there was a large settlement of 

 Arabs, one or two of whom were very large traders, as was proved by the 

 fact that in the storehouse of one of the Arabs there were no less than twenty- 

 five tons of ivory. He explained that at Nyangwe he wished to get canoes to 

 enable him to trace the river to the West Coast, but he found that no canoes 

 could be got. On the invitation of the Arab trader, Tipo Tipo, he marched 

 with him to his camp, in the expectation of getting boats. On the road he 

 passed through a remarkably rich and well watered country, where palm oil 

 trees grew as commonly as grass— a country which simply required energy 

 and capital to open it up. He lost considerable time through having been 

 taken off his route by a treacherous guide, and through his having been pre- 

 vented by a chief from passing through his country. This necessitated a 

 weary tramp of one hundred and fifty or two hundred miles out of his 

 road. 



" The gallant Commander then proceeded to state that in one of the vil- 

 lages which they were about to enter the villagers fired upon his party, and 

 refused to allow him to encamp. He summoned his men around him, ,and 



