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at the deafening sounds which celebrate the new moon 
or deliver the signals for war. 
My parting with the genial old man, who must be 
about sixty years old now, was very affecting. He 
shook my hands many times, saying each time that he 
was sorry that my visit must be so short. He strictly 
charged his sons to pay me every attention until I 
should arrive at Kibogora’s, the king of Western Usui, 
who, he was satisfied, would be glad to see me as a 
friend of Rumanika. 
On the 26th of March the Expedition, after its 
month’s rest at Kafurro, the whole of which period I had 
spent in exploration of Western Karagwe, resumed its 
journey, and after a march of five miles camped at 
Nakawanga, near the southern base of Kibonga moun- 
tain. 
The next day a march of 
thirteen miles brought us 
to the northern extremity 
of Uhimba lake, a broad 
river-like body of water 
supplied by the Alexandra 
Nile. 
On the 27th I had the good fortune to shoot three 
rhinoceroses, from the bodies of which we obtained 
ample supplies of meat for our journey through the 
wilderness of Uhimba. One of these enormous brutes 
possessed a horn two feet long, with a sharp dagger-like 
point below, a stunted horn, nine inches in length. He 
appeared to have had a tussle with some wild beast, for 
a hand’s breadth of hide was torn from his rump. 
The Wangwana and Wanyambu informed me with 
the utmost gravity that the elephant maltreats the 
rhinoceros frequently, because of a jealousy that the 
former entertains of his fiery cousin. It is said that if 
the elephant observes the excrement of the rhinoceros 
unscattered, he waxes furious, and proceeds instantly in 
search of the criminal, when woe befall him if he is 
sulky, and disposed to battle for the proud privilege of 
leaving his droppings as they fall ! The elephant in 
