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SPOUTING COUNTRY. 
men told me, and called, as usual, a " M'ganga." The 
worst features in this Wazaramo race are, that they will 
give travellers no aid, and will pounce upon stray men. 
They are polygamists ; their only faith is belief in 
the "black art;" and though residing on the borders of 
civilisation, they have no curiosity or ambition. 
II. The Wasagara population live such an outcast 
life on the tops of their conical hills, above the path 
of the traveller, that we saw little of their manners or 
customs. Parties from the coast attack them, to cap- 
ture their people and cattle ; and as we were considered 
of this class, our followers had great difficulty in getting 
supplies. We also suffered from a set of coast slave- 
hunters, who gave orders that we were not to be sup- 
plied with anything, because we had come into the 
country to put down slavery. However, it being a 
sporting country, we were more or less independent. 
Guides were got with difficulty, but a short, sharp 
fellow took me over a very fine range of stream- 
beds and shady spots for buffalo and rhinoceros, 
showing great cleverness and intelligence as a tracker. 
We met with nothing but beds of lilac convolvulus 
in the woods. My guide's chat, and his archery at a 
leaf ten paces off, beguiled the time very agreeably. 
He made me laugh at his sultan, Senga, who had four- 
teen wives ; but he himself, he said, could not marry 
until his present wardrobe was increased, it consisting 
only of what he then wore — a rag round his loins. 
III. The Wagogo. — We did not enter their oblong, 
walled villages, but I have a distinct and vivid recol- 
lection of the people. Among them were smart, wiry, 
active young fellows, who would make first-rate re- 
cruits. Their woolly hair, elongated by working into it 
