CHAP. VIII.] 
SICKNESS—SMALL-POX. 
235 
Not only were the animals sick, but my wife was 
laid up with a violent attack of gastric fever, and I 
was also suffering from daily attacks of ague. The 
small-pox broke out among the Turks. Several people 
died; and, to make matters worse, they insisted upon 
inoculating themselves and all their slaves; thus the 
whole camp was reeking with this horrible disease. 
Fortunately my camp was separate and to wind¬ 
ward. I strictly forbade my men to inoculate them¬ 
selves, and no case of the disease occurred among my 
people, but it spread throughout the country. Small¬ 
pox is a scourge among the tribes of Central Africa, 
and it occasionally sweeps through the country and 
decimates the population. 
Among the natives of Obbo, who had accompanied 
us to Latooka, was a man named Wani, who had 
formerly travelled far to the south, and had offered 
to conduct Ibrahim to a country rich in ivory that 
had never been visited by a trader : this man had 
accordingly been engaged as guide and interpreter. 
In an examination of Wani 1 discovered that the 
cowrie-shells were brought from a place called 66 Ma- 
gungo.” This name I had previously heard mentioned 
by the natives, but I could obtain no clue to its posi¬ 
tion. It was most important that I should discover 
the exact route by which the cowries arrived from the 
south, as it would be my guide to that direction. The 
information that I received from Wani at Latooka was 
excessively vague, and upon most slender data I founded 
my conclusions so carefully that my subsequent dis¬ 
coveries have rendered most interesting the first scent 
of the position which I eventually followed with success. 
I accordingly extract, verbatim , from my journal the 
note written by me at Latooka on 26th of May, 1863, 
when I first received the clue to the Albert N’Yanza :— 
“I have had a long examination of Y/ani, the guide 
and interpreter, respecting the country of Magungo. 
Loggo, the Bari interpreter, has always described Ma¬ 
gungo as being on a large river, and I have concluded 
