CHAPTER VI. 



PROM PANGA-NI TOWN TO TONGWE OUTPOST. THE 

 BALOCH GUARD. 



Ma tutta insieme poi tra verdi sponde 

 In profondo canal Pacqua s'aduna, 



E sotto I'ombra di perpetua fronde 

 Mormorando sen va gelida e bruna ; 



Ma transparente si, che non asconde 



Del imo letto sua vaghezza alcima. Tasso. 



In the heroic ages of Bruce and Mungo Park, 

 Denham and Clapperton, Hornemann and Cailli^, 

 African travel had a prestige which, after living 

 through a generation, came, as is the fate of all 

 things sublunary, to a natural end. The public 

 glutted with adventure and invention, which the 

 ' damnable license of printing ' ushered into the 

 world, soon suffered from the humours of a severe 

 surfeit : it learned to nauseate the monotonous 

 tale of rapine, treachery, and murder ; of ugly and 



