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from between Ulilia and Urundi. A river of some size 
was also said to How from the direction of Unyambungu 
into the Akanyaru.* 
The next day we entered Western Usui, and camped 
at Ivafurra’s. In Usui there was a famine, and it required 
thirty-two doti of cloth to purchase four days’ rations. 
Ivibogora demanded and obtained thirty doti, one coil of 
wire, and forty necklaces of beads as tribute ; Kafurra, 
his principal chief, demanded ten doti and a quantity of 
beads ; another chief required five doti ; the queen 
required a supply of cloth to wear ; the princes put in a 
claim ; the guides were loud for their reward. Thus, in 
four days we were compelled to disburse two bales out of 
twenty-two, all that were left of the immense store we 
had departed with from Zanzibar. Under such circum- 
stances, what prospect of exploration had we, were we to 
continue our journey through Uhha, that land which in 
1871 had consumed at the rate of two bales of cloth per 
diem ? Twenty days of such experience in Uhha would 
reduce us to beggary. Its “ esurient ” Mutware's and 
rapacious Mkamas and other extortionate people can only 
be quieted with cloth and beads disbursed with a princely 
hand. One hundred bales of cloth would only suffice 
to sustain a hundred men in Uhha about six weeks. 
Beyond Uhha lay the impenetrable countries of Urundi 
and Ruanda, the inhabitants of which were hostile to 
strangers. 
Ivibogora and Kafurra were sufficiently explicit and 
amiably communicative, for my arrival in their country 
had been under the very best auspices, viz. an introduc- 
tion from the gentle and beloved Rumanika. 
I turned away with a sigh from the interesting land, 
but with a resolution gradually being intensified, that 
the third time I sought a road west nothing should 
deter me. 
On the 7th of April we reluctantly resumed our 
journey in a southerly direction, and travelled five miles 
* I learned from Warundi and Wazige, three months later, that the 
river that came from the west was the Ruanda, flowing into the Rusizi, 
thence into the Tanganika. 
