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march as be liked, halted when it suited him, got tipsy 
whenever he could, but in the end compensated for all 
by conveying me safe to his king. 
Eumanika had a sort of litter made up, on which 
the Waganda lads were to carry me ; my half-dozen 
Seedees could not have done it, as the country after- 
wards proved to be precipitous, and full of swamps 
and marshy drains. On the morning of the 14th 
April, when a start was made from Karague, Mariboo 
came into camp with his thirty or forty men, making 
a noise and saying they had been starved while wait- 
ing for the Unyamuezi doctor and myself during the 
last fortnight, and were determined to move to-day 
whether I was ready or not. " Bring out the white 
man. Where is his bedding ? Let him get into the 
conveyance/' The property, however, had first to be 
despatched. I lost sight of it for two days, but none 
of the loads were plundered. On our journey, the 
stretcher was changed from the head to the shoulder 
of the Waganda, who went at the rate of six miles an 
hour, jostling and paining my limb unmercifully. The 
coach and four, as I may term it, was put down every 
mile, or less, that the bearers might rest, laugh, joke, 
and make a deafening noise with their mumbling 
language, beating their tongues to the roofs of their 
mouths. They seldom spoke when in motion, only 
when one stumbled the others would cry out against 
him, recommending greater care of their charge. Cer- 
tainly it was not a safe position to be perched such a 
height on an open frame of sticks, with rocky preci- 
pices, small footing for the men, and very often water 
below. One great difficulty was to make them carry 
the conveyance so that the country in front could be 
