CHAPTER IV. 
SOJOURN AT KAZEH, LAT. 5° S., LONG. 33° E. — PROVINCE OF 
UNYANYEMBE — CROPS, CATTLE, ETC. — MOOSSAH, AN INDIAN 
TRADER, HIS WIVES, ATTENDANTS, AND COWHERDS — THE 
WATUSI — DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF WAR — MOOSSAH'S 
ACCOUNT OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM. 
We were delayed here for fifty-one days on account 
of the falling rains, the flooded state of the river 
ahead, and the impossibility of getting porters to 
move at such a season, when grain was not procur- 
able. Our arrival was hailed with great delight. 
Moossah, an excellent friend of Speke's, several 
Arabs and many followers, all in holiday attire, came 
out a mile to welcome our ragged - looking Indian 
file. Guns were fired, yambos and salaams with 
shaking of hands followed, and we were lodged once 
more under a hospitable roof. 
The country is surrounded by low bare hills, which 
every morning till eight or nine were obscured by an 
unhealthy coloured mist, filling the wide valley where 
we lay. There was nothing to cheer the eye — no 
river, no trees : it reminded Speke of the Crimea. Rills 
ran here and there through grass, and opened out on 
