254 MARCHING. 



dry season was apocryphal. Cliogwe then offered 

 few attractions, and we left the bazar on Thurs- 

 day, Eeb. 26 : my companion walked to Panga-ni, 

 making a route-survey, whilst the Jemadar and 

 his tail escorted me in the large canoe. 



This trial trip to Euga, which covered 150 

 miles in 11 days, had supplied me with a fair 

 budget of experience and had drawn my atten- 

 tion to an important point, namely, the difference 

 between our distances and those of M, Erhardt's 

 map. Whilst we placed the head-quarter village 37 

 miles in direct line, and along the devious path 

 74 or 75, he gave the measures respectively as 

 82 and 100. Hence I was led to question all the 

 distances in the remote parts : the road between 

 Mombasali and Kilima-njaro had already been 

 reduced from 200 to 130 miles; and, to judge from 

 analogy, a little farther subtraction might be 

 applied. Our longest march was only 17 miles : 

 after i days' continued work the slaves were dead- 

 beat ; our escort, who carried only their weapons, 

 murmured loudly at our habits, and the Panga-ni 

 people considered the rate of walking excessive. 

 Without measuring instruments or the habit of 

 correct timing, it is difficult to estimate distance. 

 Some years afterwards, when ascending the Came- 

 roons Mountain, I found, by taping, 11,570 feet 



