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this broad gulf of. Lake Victoria — brought their hoes, 
iron wire, and salt, besides great plenty of sweet- 
potatoes and yams. 
Reports of us were carried far along the paths of 
trade to the countries contiguous to the highways of 
traffic, because we were in a land which had been, 
from time immemorial, a land of gossip and primitive 
commerce ; and a small band of peaceful natives, 
accustomed to travel, might explore hundreds of square 
miles in Usukuma without molestation. But though 
KAGEHYI. 
Unyanyembe, and through it Zanzibar, might receive 
within a few months reliable information about our 
movements, there were countries in the immediate 
neighbourhood of Ivagehyi whither traders never venture, 
which were for ever cut off from the interesting intel- 
ligence that there were three white men on the shores 
of the lake, who were said to be most amiable and 
sociable. Ujiji, far away on Lake Tanganika, might 
be set to wondering whether they had come from Masr 
(Cairo) or from Zanzibar, but Wirigedi, close at hand 
