136 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

Majemba Grana took the hoes, and has ever since been on friendly terms with Mirambo.

I remained a few days more at Uyui, hoping to get news of reinforcements, but none came ; so, after having sent letters after Morton, who had left for the coast during my absence at Tabora, I started for the north on February 21st. The rainy season was now at its height, and large tracts of country were under water, making marching very unpleasant. However, we pushed on fast, for, as the porters were going home, they needed no other inducement to travel well, and after spending a day with Mtinginya reached the Monungu again on March 4th. AYe found this river even fuller than it had been on the journey down, six weeks previously, and it was only crossed after many hours' work, up to our waists in water the whole time. We stayed a day at Sernwi to rest, and here I found that Said bin Salim's two men, whom I had met at Mtinginya's, had played me a mean trick. Some of Songoro's people, who had been at Kagei at the time of the Ukerewe massacre had left for Unyanyembe, on hearing of their master's death, with a quantity of property which had been advanced to Songoro by Said bin Salim to trade with. This property they had left at Semwi in the chiefs care, promising him a present if he would look after it. On the governor's men arriving here, they heard about this property, and, having ascer-