NG'URU TO KAGEI AND UKEEEWE. 91 Kagei we found that there was not a stick of timber to be had, suitable for boat-building, within many miles ; so that we could do nothing. At length on March 4th a messenger arrived from Lieut. Smith saying that he and Dr. Smith had both been very ill, and that many of their men had deserted ; so O'Neill and I sent off some men and donkeys to meet them and assist them. On March 29th Dr. Smith arrived, having been carried in a hammock, for he was so weak he could not stand. Up to Ng'uru he had not had an hour's illness, though the rest of us had been down with fever repeatedly ; but soon after O'Neill and I started he had his first attack of ague, followed by rheumatism, which had terribly reduced him, and he looked a mere shadow of what he had been.

Lieut. Smith arrived on April the 1st with a detachment of the caravan, the first having come with Dr.

Smith, and the third being behind under the charge of an interpreter. As soon as all the goods had arrived, we set to work overhauling the whole of our stores, and housing and cleaning tools and machinery. We had brought with us a small cedar boat in sections; she was built by Messenger of Teddington, and was intended to be used on the "Wami or Kingani in keeping up communication between Zanzibar and Mpwapwa. But those rivers proving unnavigable, Lieut. Smith decided to take her up country : she had been built in sections in order that she might be easily carried by men if there were occasion ; these