STILL RUNNING THE GAUNTLET ON THE RIVER. 481 
liver forty yards wide at the mouth entering the 
Livingstone from the left bank, nearly opposite Kyya 
Kamba Island. 
In the afternoon we passed several old settlements, 
which were probably abandoned because of the Wakumu, 
who are the great dread of this section on both banks. 
One of these old settlements is called Kyyo Kaba. 
Just below on the right bank, opposite Kanjebe Islands, 
is Aruko country, a district of Uregga, and on the left 
is Wandeiwa, separated from Kyyo Kaba by a small 
sluggish creek twenty yards wide. 
We camped on the night of the 19th on the right 
bank in what we believed to be a market-place. The 
green was inviting, the trees were patriarchal, the forest 
at the hour approaching sunset was lonely, and we 
flattered ourselves that before the next sun was suf- 
ficiently high to cause the natives to appear at the 
market-place, we should have departed. I also flattered 
myself that I was tolerably well acquainted with the 
arts of savages, but my astonishment was very great to 
find myself but a novice after all, for in the morning 
one of my people came to inform me, with a grave face, 
that we were netted. 
“ Netted ! ” I said. “ What do you mean ? ” 
“ True, master ; there is a tall high net round the 
camp from above to below, and the net is made of 
cord.” 
“ Ah, if there is a net, there must be men behind 
waiting to spear the game.” 
I called Manwa Sera, and gave him thirty men, 
ordering him to pull up river half a mile or so, and 
after penetrating into the woods behind our camp, to 
lie in wait near some path which led to the market- 
place on which we were encamped. After waiting an 
hour to give the men time, we blew a loud blast on the 
horn as a signal, and sent four men with shields to 
cut the net, while ten men with guns, and thirty men 
with spears, stood by ready to observe what happened. 
AVliile the net was being cut, four or five heavy spears 
came hurtling from the bushes. We fired at random 
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