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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. XXYIII. 
CHAP. XXVIII. 
ARRIVAL IN KUKAWA. 
Wednesday, ^ HIS was *° be a most momentous day of 
Apni 2nd. m y Pavels . f or j was i 0 reac h that place 
which was the first distinct object of our mission, 
and I was to come into contact with those people on 
whose ill or good-will depended the whole success of 
our mission. 
Although encamped late at night, we were again 
up at an early hour ; but in endeavouring to return 
to the track which we had left the preceding night, 
we inadvertently crossed it, and so came to another 
village, with a very numerous herd of cattle, where 
we became aware of our error, and then had to 
regain the main road. 
Two miles afterwards there was a very great 
change in the character of the country; for the 
sand}?- soil which had characterized the district all 
along the komddugu now gave way to clay, where 
water is only met with at considerable depth. We 
met a troop of tugurchi, who informed us that none 
of the villages along our track at the present moment 
had a supply of water, not even the considerable vil- 
lage Kangaruwa, but that at the never-failing well of 
