126 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

CHAPTEE VI.

KAGEI TO TABORA AND BACK.

AFTER collecting all the information about Smith and O'Neill's death, I began overhauling all the stores and taking stock of what was left. I soon found that there was very little cloth, and that I could not go on much longer without supplies. On January 16th men arrived from the coast bringing a batch of letters, which contained, amongst other news, the pleasant intelligence that two more men had been sent out with orders to join Mackay, who had recruited his health, and was intending to come on to the Lake. He had constructed a road from Sadaani to Mpwapwa, and at the time the mail runners left the coast had formed a caravan of bullock waggons, and was about to start with his two companions. As it was extremely doubtful when this caravan w rould arrive at the Lake, I decided to go myself, with a few men, to Unyanyembe, and buy a sufficient quantity of cloth to last me for some time. I engaged twelve men of Kaduma's, the chief of Kagei, to go with me and bring back my supplies,