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At this place I met messengers from Mankorongo 
despatched by him to invite me to go and see him, and 
who, with all the impudence characteristic of their 
behaviour to the Arabs, declared that if I attempted to 
traverse any country in his neighbourhood without 
paying him the compliment of a visit, it would be my 
utter ruin ! 
They were sent back with a peaceful message, and told 
to say that I was bound for Kibogora’s capital, to try 
and search out a road across Uruncli to the west, and that 
if I did not succeed I would think of Mankorongo’s 
words ; at the same time, Mankorongo was to be sure 
that if I was waylaid in the forest by any large armed 
party with a view to intimida- 
tion, that party would be sorry 
for it. 
I had heard of Manko- 
rongo’s extortions from Arabs 
and Waganda, and how he 
had proved himself a worthy 
successor to the rapacious 
Swarora, who caused so much i- | | — / 
trouble to Speke and Grant. y 
During the second day of V, .fence 
our courteous intercourse with ground-plan of king’s house. 
Kakoko, I ascended a mount 
some 600 feet high about three miles from camp, to 
take bearings of the several features which Ivananga 
was requested to show me. Five countries were 
exposed to view, Karagwe, Kishakka, Ruanda beyond, 
Ugufu, and Usui. Parallel with Usui was pointed out 
King Khanza’s Uhha ; beyond Ulilia we were told was 
Uruncli ; beyond Urundi, west, the Tanganika and 
Uzige, and then nobody knew what lands lay beyond 
Uzige'. Akanyaru stretched south of west, between 
Ruanda, Uhha, and Urundi ; in a south-west direction 
was said to be Kivu ; in a west by north Mkinyaga, and 
in the west Unyambungu. Ugufu was separated from 
Kishakka by the Nawarongo or Ruvuvu, and from 
Uhha and Usui by the Alexandra Kile which came 
