CHAPTEE V. 
JOURNEY TO UKUNI — DIFFICULTIES AT STARTING — PICTURESQUE 
COUNTRY — ATTACKS OF FEVER — TREES AND FRUIT — MODE 
OF MAKING BARK-CLOTH — NATURAL HISTORY — NATIVE CLUB- 
HOUSE — DANCES AND GAMES — DESCRIPTION OF A SULTAN — 
WOMEN OF THE COUNTRY — SLAVES IN IRONS — RELEASE OF A 
SLAVE — NATIVE COOKERY — THE NEGRO ON PARADE. 
However great was our desire to push on with the 
journey, we could not impress the Africans with this 
feeling. Porters would be ordered, and two days after- 
wards you found no one had gone for them. A general 
panic had seized the natives that the plundering Wa- 
tuta race were on the wing. The villages to the north 
were busy making defences, or a report had reached 
them that the Arabs had killed two of their clan ; 
how, therefore, could they take service with us, who 
might do the same ? Everything seemed to be against 
us ; they would accept no bribe. None of the slaves 
of the Arabs would take service, though offered it, 
first by Baraka, and then by Speke in person, who 
walked 80 miles to induce them to accompany us. 
Ultimately we moved off by detachments, and accom- 
plished 90 miles, with 110 mens loads, in 75 days. 
