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broadcloth (§12), eight turbans of sprig mus- 

 lin (88), a similar number of Surat embroi- 

 dered caps (§8), and two light-colom'ed cotton 

 shawls of trifling value. Our provisions consisted 

 of three bags of rice (§12.50), a sack of dates 

 (§2.25), onions, manioc, flour, tea, and sugar, for 

 10 days ; tobacco, pepper and salt, of which none 

 is procurable in the interior ; a lamb, three 

 chickens, and a bottle of cognac, to be used in 

 case of need. Our beds were in waterproofs, 

 which might also be converted into tents and 

 awnings; a horn lantern, wax candles, and a 

 policeman's dark-lantern, were added for night- 

 work, whilst a portable tin canteen, with a Pa- 

 pin's digester, completed the equipment. What 

 we chiefly wanted were water-skins, beads, and 

 ' domestics ; ' and this we presently found to our 

 cost. 



It was 6 A. M. before we were free to follow 

 the thorny goat-track which leads down the X. 

 Eastern spur of Mount Tongwe. By dint of fight- 

 ing our way through rushes and tiger- grass, we 

 struck into the Panga-ni road, and after three 

 hours' winding to the north-west, we rested at 

 some fetid pools in a reed-grown fiumara. The 

 sun began to sting, and we had already occupied 

 the shadow of a tall rock, intending to doze till 



