CHAPTEE VIII. 



THE MARCH BACK. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS* HUNT. 

 THE RETURN TO ZANZIBAR. 



' Wasteful, forth 

 Walks the dire Power of pestilent disease. 

 A thousand hideous fiends her course attend, 

 Sick nature blasting, and to heartless woe 

 And feeble desolation, casting down 

 The towering hopes and all the pride of man.'* 



The Seasons. 



The Anglo-African traveller, in this section of 

 the 19th century, is an over-worked professional. 

 Pormerly the reading public was satisfied with 

 dry details of mere discovery, and was delighted 

 with a few longitudes, latitudes, and altitudes. 

 Of late in this, as in all other pursuits, the 

 standard has been raised. Whilst marching so 

 many miles per diem, and watching a certain 



