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DEPARTURE FROM KAZEH. 
from Kazeh. At Karague they have three crops yearly 
of murwa and sorghum. King of Uganda has a 
menagerie of 200 wild buffaloes; will give as many 
cheetah (leopard) skins as you like. The Wa- 
humah of Karague have the most enormous arms, 
bodies, and legs • cannot walk ; always rest on their 
elbows and knees ; hands and feet very small ; good 
noses and fair skins. Karague sultan cannot write, 
but sends a string of bark-cloth with knots upon it 
corresponding with the number of elephant-tusks sent." 
All this exciting information made us eager for a 
move, but Moossah kept delaying. However, by the 
middle of March we had finished maps from observa- 
tions, made collections, boiled thermometers, inspected 
newly-purchased presents for the kings ahead, sketched, 
written reports and letters to wait any chance oppor- 
tunity for the coast, and recovered from sickness. The 
rivers would soon be fordable, and a fourth of our 
porters had arrived ; the remainder dreaded coming 
to us, as war was waging. "We pitched camp on the 
15th, and marched north without Moossah on the 
16th March 1861, leaving the bulk of our kit be- 
hind, in charge of Bombay. In return for Moossah's 
hospitality, Speke gave him five hundred dollars 
and a beautifully chased gold watch made to order by 
M'Cabe. We experienced one great privation here, 
never receiving letters from home ; but, odd enough, 
those despatched by us reached their destination. 
