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and throughout the interior Tiga or Twiga. Their sign 

 is often seen in the uncultivated parts of the country ; 

 but they wander far, and they are rarely found except by 

 accident ; the hides are converted into shields and 

 saddle-bags, the long tufty tails into "chauri," or fly- 

 flappers, and the flesh is a favourite food. At Ugogi, 

 however, game has suffered from the frequent haltings 

 of caravans, and from the carnivorous propensities of the 

 people, who, huntsmen all, leave their prey no chance 

 against their nets and arrows, their pitfalls and their 

 packs of yelping curs. 



Ugogi stands 2760 feet above sea level, and its climate, 

 immediately after the raw cold of Usagara, pleases by its 

 elasticity and by its dry healthy warmth. The nights 

 are fresh and dewless, and the rays of a tropical sun are 

 cooled by the gusts and raffales which, regularly as the 

 land and sea-breezes of the coast, sweep down the sinuo- 

 sities of Dungomaro. As our u gnawing stomachs" tes- 

 tified, the air of Usagara had braced our systems. My 

 companion so far recovered health that he was able to bring 

 home many a brace of fine partridge, and of the fat guinea- 

 fowl that, clustering upon the tall trees, awoke the echoes 

 of the rocks as they called for their young. The Baloch, 

 the sons of Ramji, and the porters began to throw off the 

 effects of the pleurisies and the other complaints, which 

 they attributed to hardship and exposure on the mountain- 

 tops. The only obstinate invalids were the two Goanese. 

 Gaetano had another attack of the Mukunguru, or sea- 

 soning fever, which, instead of acclimatising his consti- 

 tution, seemed by ever increasing weakness and depres- 

 sion, to pave the way for a fresh visitation. Valentine, 

 with flowing eyes, pathetically pointed to two indurations 

 in his gastric region, and bewailed his hard fate in thus 

 being torn from the dearly-loved shades of Panjim 



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