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WE SUCCEED IN MARCHING. 
to Karague, in the hope of sending me relief from 
thence. Our own Seedees mutinied ; they would not 
hear of this plan, as the country of Usui was danger- 
ous, — it was certain death to accompany white men, 
who were considered sorcerers of the deepest dye, and 
they insisted that we had not enough of presents 
for the chiefs. Speke, ever active, to my utter sur- 
prise, walked back the sixty miles to announce this 
failure to me. " What has happened ? I thought you 
were in Karague ! " What was to be done ? Our 
beads and cloth were running short ; my sultan would 
not give us a man. Unyanyembe and the Arabs must 
be appealed to, and carpenters might be got to proceed 
to the south end of Lake Nyanza, make a raft, and so 
escape the danger of Usui. This plan was carried 
out with success. Speke returned on the nineteenth 
day from the Arabs, having, in going and returning, 
accomplished a journey of 180 miles. He had 
ordered from Zanzibar a fresh supply of bartering 
goods, of which we heard nothing till our arrival in 
England two years afterwards. The raft scheme had 
been dropped, and he had brought with him trusty 
guides and interpreters for Uganda. Here more than 
a month elapses; his guides desert, his men are more 
mutinous than ever, and Bombay is on his way for new 
guides, as his master is struck down with illness, which 
I knew nothing of for twenty-seven days, and had no 
prospect of seeing him. Suddenly a party of coast 
men arrive from the north, saying, " Every chief there 
waits you ; go on, get porters; the road is clear;" 
so, after days of obstinate resistance and final outbreak 
by my old sultan, on the 12th September I was able 
once again to be on the move to join my companion. 
