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UOOGO AND IEAMBA TO NG'URU. 63 well to give a list of the places where our caravan paid hongo, and the amounts. Mviimi, 27 cloths, 2 coils of brass wire, 2 bunches of amber beads = about $50; Matamburu, 16 cloths, 2 coils of wire = about $30; Bihawana, 6 cloths = $6; Kididimo, 6 cloths = $6; Kitararu, 10 cloths = $12; Mbahi, ]5 cloths = $20 ; Puna, 15 cloths = $20 ; Unyamguira, 15 cloths = $20 ; total $164. On November 3rd we were again on the move, and quitting our camp by the side of the Unyamgogo, we soon entered jungle, through which we travelled by a winding path for several hours, till we reached the foot of some precipitous cliffs, up which we slowly climbed by a zigzag path between huge boulders, over fallen trees and through dense masses of underwood. When we reached the summit of the cliffs the view amply repaid us for the climb : just beneath us, hundreds of feet below, was an undulating sea of foliage of every possible tint of green ; farther on was the winding bed of the Unyamgogo, its serpentine course marked out by the detached pools of water which sparkled in the sunlight ; along its banks here and there were the familiar tembes ; still farther away, till lost in the blue haze which obscured the distant horizon, stretched the bare burning plain of Ugogo, the brown barren expanse being relieved only by an occasional palm grove. Leaving the edge of the plateau, which we had just gained, we kept on through the

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