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flat-topped mimosa, with green grass and bright shrubs, 

 to a small and dirty khambi, in a hollow flanked by 

 heights, upon which several settlements appeared. At 

 this place, called the " Great Kubeho," in distinction 

 from its western neighbour, I was compelled to halt. 

 My invalid sub. had been seized with a fever-fit that 

 induced a dangerous delirium during two successive 

 nights ; he became so violent that it was necessary to 

 remove his w r eapons, and, to judge from certain symp- 

 toms, the attack had a permanent cerebral effect. Death 

 appeared stamped upon his features, yet the Baloch and 

 the sons of Pamji clamoured to advance, declaring that 

 the cold disagreed with them. 



On the 12th September the invalid, who, restored 

 by a cool night, at first proposed to advance, and then 

 doubted his ability to do so, was yet hesitating when 

 the drum-signal for departure sounded without my 

 order. The Wanyamwezi porters instantly set out. I 

 sent to recal them, but they replied that it was the 

 custom of their race never to return ; a well-sounding 

 principle against which they never offended except to 

 serve their own ends. At length a hammock was rigged 

 up for my companion, and the whole caravan broke 

 ground. 



The path ran along the flank of an eminence, and, 

 ascending a second step, as steep but shorter than the 

 Pass Terrible, placed us at the Little Kubeho, or 

 Windy Pass, the summit of the third and westernmost 

 range of the Usagara Mountains, raised 5,700 feet above 

 the sea-level. It is the main water-parting of this ghaut- 

 region. At Inenge the trend is still to the S.E. ; be- 

 yond Rubeho the direction is S.W. Eventually, how- 

 ever, the drainage of both, slope and counter-slope finds 

 its way to the Indian Ocean, the former through the 



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