UGOQO AND IEAMBA TO NG'URU. 55 laid out to dry, or a huge box of bark called a " kalindo," like a gigantic bandbox, and used to store grain in.

The district of Mpwapwa being a borderland, the people are of a somewhat mixed race, or rather representatives of a number of tribes, Wagogo, Wasagara, Makua, and others.

The people here eat a species of field-mouse, and the little boys may be seen coming home in the evening with numbers of them strung, like red herrings, on a stick.

The view from the spot where our tents were pitched was a very fine one. In the foreground the land sloped rapidly down to the river-bed, then for the most part dry ; beyond, towards the west, for many miles stretched a broad plain, bounded on the horizon by a low range of hills, behind which the sun used to set in a sea of red and gold. The northern part of this plain was dotted with tembes, and, here and there, a huge baobab rose above the fields of waving corn ; the southern half w Tas covered with sombre forests of mimosa and acacia, where herds of buffalo, brindled gnu, and various species of antelopes roamed about. A mass of forestclad hills formed the northern boundary of the plains, and was the home of numerous wild beasts, which paid nightly visits to the plain in hopes of picking up a stray lamb or kid ; and far away in the south, the huge outline of the Eubeho Mountains