784 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



the family porridge still cooking, and great pots full of milk standing ready 

 for the evening meal. 



"It had been previously agreed upon between ' General' Samboozi and 

 myself that if the inhabitants chose to permit our peaceful passage through 

 Unyoro, no violence was to be done to any person. But at Kitagwenda we 

 found ourselves in possession of a populous and thriving district, with not a 

 single soul near us to give any information. Lake Albert, on the evening of 

 January 9th, was about three miles due west, and it behoved us, that we 

 might not be surprised, to obtain information as to the feelings of the country 

 towards us. Samboozi was clever enough to perceive the position, and he 

 consented to send out two hundred men next morning as scouts, to capture a 

 few men, through whom we could communicate with the Chief of Kitagwenda, 

 and satisfy him that, if unmolested, we had no hostile intention, but that, if 

 permitted to reside two months, we would pay him in cloth, beads, or wire, for 

 whatever we consumed. 



" The next day was a halt, and the Scouts brought in five natives, who 

 were sent with a peaceful message to the chief. This individual did not deign 

 to answer us, though' we knew he resided on the summit of a mountain close 

 by. On the 11th we moved our army to within one mile of the edge of the 

 plateau, a thousand feet below which was the Albert Nyanza. Here we con- 

 structed our camp on the morning of the 11th, and, receiving no word from 

 the chief of the Kitagwenda or of Unyampaka, sent five hundred Waganda 

 and fifty of the Anglo-American Expedition to seek out a locality for a fenced 

 post, and to borrow the use of all canoes along the coast at the base of the 

 plateau on which we were camped. In about three hours the reconnoitring 

 party returned, bringing information that they had only succeeded in securing 

 five small canoes, too small to be of any service to us, and that the alarm had 

 already spread far along the shores that a large force of strangers had arrived 

 at the lake for war purposes. 



" The 12th was spent by me in endeavouring to induce Samboozi to 

 move to the lake, that we might build a fortified place and put the boat ' Lady 

 Alice' together, but it was in vain. The natives had by this recovered their 

 wits, and, strongly reinforced from the neighbouring districts, they were 

 preparing themselves for an effort to punish us for our temerity. Once we 

 sallied out of our camp for a battle ; but they, while withdrawing, told us 

 mockingly to keep our strength for the next day. Unable to persuade Sam- 

 boozi to move his camp or stay longer than the next day, there remained for 

 us only to return to Uganda, and accordingly, on the night of the 12th, it 

 was resolved to return and try and discover some other country where the 

 Expedition could camp in safety, while I explored the lake in the ' Lady 

 Alice.' On the morning of the 13th we set out on our return from the Albert 

 in order of battle ; five hundred spearmen in front, five hundred for the rear- 



