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their release. I gave it unwillingly, and on the next 

 march they " levanted," carrying off, as runaway slaves 

 are wont to do, a knife, some cloth, and other necessaries 

 belonging to Sangora, a brother donkey-driver. S angora 

 returning without leave, to recover his goods, was seized, 

 tied up, and severely fustigated by the inexorable Ki- 

 dogo, for daring to be retained whilst he himself was 

 dismissed. 



The Kirangozi and Bombay having rejoined at So- 

 rora, the Expedition left it on the 16th January. Tra- 

 versing a fetid marsh, the road plunged into a forest, 

 and crossed a sharp elbow of the Gombe Nullah, upon 

 whose grassy and reedy banks lay a few dilapidated 

 "baumrinden" canoes, showing that at times the bed 

 becomes unfordable. Having passed that night at 

 Ukungwe, and the next at Panda, dirty little villages, 

 where the main of the people's diet seemed to be 

 mushrooms resembling ours and a large white fungus 

 growing over the grassy rises, on the 18th January we 

 entered Kajjanjeri. 



Kajjanjeri appeared in the shape of a circle of round 

 huts. Its climate is ever the terror of travellers : to 

 judge from the mud and vegetation covering the floors, 

 the cultivators of the fields around usually retire to 

 another place during the rainy season. Here a formi- 

 dable obstacle to progress presented itself. I had been 

 suffering for some days : the miasmatic air of Sorora 

 had sown the seeds of fresh illness. About 3 p.m., I 

 was obliged to lay aside the ephemeris by an unusual 

 sensation of nervous irritability, which was folio wed by 

 a general shudder as in the cold paroxysm of fevers. 

 Presently the extremities began to weigh and to burn 

 as if exposed to a glowing fire, and a pair of jack-boots, 

 the companions of many a day and night, became too 



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