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the outlying masses which fall westward into the waste 

 of Mgunda M'khali. After an hour's march, we turned 

 abruptly eastwards, and crossing a rugged stony fork, 

 presently found a dwarf basin of red soil which sup- 

 plied water. The Wahehe owners of the land have a 

 chronic horror of the Warori ; on sighting our peaceful 

 caravan, they at once raised the war-cry, and were 

 quieted only by the certainty that we were even more 

 frightened than they were. At Kinganguku, the night 

 was again wild and stormy ; in fact, after leaving 

 Ugogi, we were regularly rained upon till we had 

 crossed the Mountains. 



On the 9th December, we marched in six hours from 

 Kinyanguku to Rudi, the principaldistrict of Uhehe. 

 It was an ascent plunging into the hills, which, however, 

 on this line are easy to traverse, compared with those of 

 the northern route ; the paths were stony and rugged, 

 and the earth was here white and glaring, there of a 

 dull red colour. Water pure and plentiful was found in 

 pits about fifteen feet deep, which dented the sole of 

 a picturesque Fiumara. The people assembled to stare 

 with the stare pertinacious ; they demanded large prices 

 for their small reserves of provisions, but they sold 

 tobacco at the rate of two or three cakes, each weigh- 

 ing about one pound and a half, for a shukkah. 



Passing from the settlements of Eudi, on the next 

 morning we entered a thorn jungle, where the handi- 

 work of the fierce Warori appeared in many a shell of 

 smoke-stained village. We then crossed two Fiumaras 

 exactly similar to those which attract the eye in the 

 Somali country, broad white sandy beds, with high stiff 

 earth-banks deeply water-cut, and with huge emerald- 

 foliaged trees rising from a hard bare red plain. After 

 a short march of three hours, we pitched under a 



