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ARRIVE AT FOWEERA. 
[chap. XV. 
sentries be on guard, lie would in all probability fire at 
the first object he might see, without a challenge. I 
therefore ordered my men to shout, while I gave my 
well-known whistle that would be a signal of our 
arrival. For some time we exerted our lungs in 
this manner before we received a reply, and I began 
to fear that our people were not at this village : at 
length a well-known voice replied in Arabic. The 
sentries and the whole party were positively asleep, 
although close to an enemy’s country. They were soon 
awake when it was reported that we had arrived, and 
upon our entering the village they crowded around us 
with the usual welcome. A large fire was lighted in a 
spacious hut, and fortunately, the portmanteau having 
preceded us together with the ammunition, we were 
provided with a change of clothes. 
I slept for a couple of hours, and then sent for the 
chief of Foweera, Kalloe. Both he and his son ap¬ 
peared; they said that their spies had reported that 
the M’wa would attack this village on the following 
day; that they had devastated the entire country and 
occupied the whole of Unyoro and Chopi ;—that they 
had cut off a large herd of cattle belonging to Kamrasi, 
and he had only just reached the island in time for 
security, as the enemy had arrived at the spot and 
killed a number of people who were too late to embark. 
Kalloe reported that Kamrasi had fired at the M was 
from the island, but having no bullets his rifle was 
useless. The M was had returned the fire, being pro¬ 
vided with four guns that they had procured from 
Speke’s desertersthey were in the same condition 
as Kamrasi, having no bullets ; thus a harmless fusilade 
had been carried on by both parties. The M’was had 
retired from their position on the bank of the river by 
Kamrasi’s island, and had proceeded to Atada, which 
they had destroyed. They were now within three 
miles of us; nevertheless the foolish Kalloe expressed 
his determination of driving his cattle to Kamrasi’s 
island for security, about two miles distant. I endea- 
