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THE VOYAGE. 



poor reward for 16 miles in the burning sun. 



Weary of negro importunities, we resolved to 

 visit Chogwe, tlie nearest Balocli outpost upon 

 the Rufu^ (Lufu), or Upper Pangani river, and 

 thence, aided by the Jemadar, who had preceded 

 us, to push for Euga, the capital village of Usum- 

 bara. We made our preparations silently, paid 

 off the Eiami, rejected the Diwans who wished 

 to accompany us as spies, left Said bin Salim 

 and Caetano, the Goanese lad, in the house of the 

 Wali Meriko, who presently accompanied his 

 Muigni to Zanzibar; and under pretext of a short 

 shooting excursion, we hired a long canoe and 

 four men, loaded it with the luggage required for 

 a fortnight, and started with the tide, at 11 a.m. 

 on January 6, 1858. 



Pirst we grounded, then a puff of wind drove 

 us on at railway speed, and then we scraped 

 again : it was impossible to avoid being taken 



' Mr Wakefield (loc. eit.) writes the word ' Eiivu,' and says 

 that it is Kizegiia (Kizegura). T believe that this is the name 

 by which it is known, not only ' a few days in the interior,' but 

 immediately beyond the embouchure. As has already been re- 

 marked, the wild people would pronounce the words Kizegiia and 

 Mzegiia, the civilized Kizegura and Mzegura. Dr Krapf prefers 

 Luffu, Lufu being the more truly African form. Mr Cooley 

 (Lower Africa, &c., p. 71)) has Kuvu, a mere error, and ho actu- 

 ally confounds it with the great Eufuma stream, a hundred miles 

 to the south. 



