972 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



short, and to secure, if possible, men to go on to the lake. Up to the present 

 he has not returned. 



"Since leaving Mpwapwa we have had two deaths, and three ran away. 

 The incidents of the whole journey, I am happy to say, have been few. At 

 Bugari, some six days' march to the east of Mpwapwa, we were threatened 

 by an attack from the Masai, who were in its neighbourhood plundering cara- 

 vans and carrying off cattle. The villagers went out to meet them, but no 

 encounter took place, and they retired from that part of the country after a 

 few days, and we proceeded safely. Next we had the unfortunate affair at 

 Mpwapwa. On the march we had a fight between our men and those of another 

 caravan travelling with us, the dispute being about the dead body of an ele» 

 phant, which both claimed as having being the first to discover it. Fire-arms 

 were freely used on both sides, but I am happy to say with no fatal results. 

 Then we had the Rugu-Rugu in the great jungle. These we avoided by 

 waiting until they had taken a different course in pursuit of another caravan. 

 The same banditti made an attack on the village of Nguru, coming in and 

 attempting to carry off corn. They were repulsed and the corn recovered 

 by the villagers, aided by our men. Any one of these events might have 

 proved serious affairs to us, had they taken a different course from what they 

 did. We have to thank God for the protection he has been pleased to extend 

 to us, and for bringing us thus far on our journey in safety." 



" Semia, Jan 3rd, 1877. 



" I am happy to say we are once more on our march towards the lake, 

 after a delay of four weeks at Nguru, with a small caravan. Wilson and I 

 are now thirty-one miles on the road. We have passed through the only 

 jungle we expect to meet, have crossed a large river, the Munungu, and are 

 now passing through a well-cultivated and thickly -peopled country, which 

 would be an admirable field for a missionary station. The people are a mild 

 and industrious race." * 



" Kagei, Jan, 29th, 1877 



" I am now able to announce our arrival at the Victoria Nyanza, after a 

 rather tedious journey of thirty-one days from Nguru, the distance being 

 about one hundred and twenty -five miles. We had expected to have accom- 

 plished this stage in fourteen or sixteen days, but, owing to the many delays 

 which we experienced from our pagaazi, stopping at villages from various 

 causes, sometimes sickness, but more frequently whim, we could not get on ; 

 and were obliged to submit, or they would leave us in a worse plight by run- 

 ning away from us. The whole distance travelled over is studded with vil- 

 lages, nicely situated and surrounded by green hedgerows of euphorbia ; alto- 

 gether, the country is a fine open one, with much cattle and well cultivated, 

 every village having a considerable breadth of land sown with Indian corn or 



