64 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

forest, gradually rising, and finally halted for the night, at a height of 1100 feet above our camp in the plains. The next day we reached Gange, a large village on the edge of the forest region, which lies between Ugogo and Unyamwezi ; and here we found two or three small caravans waiting for us. They had heard of us on the road, and, knowing that we were well armed, were anxious to travel with us through the jungle, and thus be safer from the attacks of the Wataturu and Ruga Ruga. Early on the morning of the 6th we started for our eight days' march through an unbroken forest. We soon reached the bottom of a cliff similar to, though not so high as that which we had scaled on leaving Ugogo, and on reaching the top at once plunged into the forest in a W.N.W. direction. The forest continued during the whole day's march, with the exception of a small plain about a mile wide, where we came upon some of the nomadic Wataturu, a small warlike tribe who inhabit this jungle ; they have no villages, but wander about from place to place with their cattle. For the first two days water was met with pretty frequently in shallow pools and pits. At one of the former, near the end of the second day's march, a dead elephant was found, and the porters at once threw down their loads and set to work to cut off the flesh. Our caravan was the leading one, and it was our men who found the elephant, but on the arrival of the