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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER VI. 
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Village life at Ukuni, May 27 to September 12, 1861— The country 
well cultivated and wooded — The seasons, winds, &c. — Blind 
musicians — Food of the natives — Women at harvest —Coinage and 
manufactures — Flora of Ukuni — Domestic and wild animals — Sin- 
gular ceremony with a dead lion — Attack of ants — Sultan and Sul- 
tana of Ukuni — African women are good mothers — Drum music 
— Superstitions — System of brotherhood, . . . .81 
CHAPTER VII. 
Ukuni to Karague, September 12 to November 25, distance 200 miles 
— Commencing the journey — Attacked on the march — The Watuta 
race — The country between Ukuni and Karague — Waterfall — Vol- 
canic mounds — The king of birds — The Wanyambo — The Walinga, 
or workers in iron — A native beauty — Language of the country, 111 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Karague, November 25 to April 14, 1862— The royal family — Habits 
of the Sultan Rumanika — Crusader-like custom at new moon — 
Idolatry — The Sultan's brothers — Description of Karague and its 
neighbourhood — Illness of the author — English garden pease — 
Markets, coffee-traders — Earliest information regarding the Nile — 
The two races of Karague, the Wahuma and Wanyambo — the Prin- 
cesses — Royal residence — Musical instruments, . . .137 
CHAPTER IX. 
The Uganda march, April 14 to May 27, 1862 — Mariboo and his 
Uganda followers — Rich foliage — Ferrying the river Kitangule — 
Superstition against sounding the river — Victoria Nyanza, a bound- 
less sea — Fine country between Kitangule and Kitonga — Flora of 
the district — Incidents of the march — Lunch with Uganda womau 
— Disagreeable march — The governor Pokinno — Summer-houses of 
the Uganda, ....... 188 
CHAPTER X. 
Uganda, May 27 to July 7, 1862 — Meeting with Captain Speke— Aud- 
ience with the King of Uganda — The Queen's drawing-room — The 
detective system — The executioners — Stick drill — Ingenious work- 
men in Uganda — A storm, . . . . .219 
