NG'URU TO KAGEI AND UKEEEWE. 85 though clad in most filthy clothes, came to greet us, and bade us welcome to his village, followed by Songoro, a negro trader who had an establishment here, ,and who was dressed in a clean white robe, looking cool and comfortable. After the usual compliments had been exchanged and flowery speeches made, Kaduma took us to one end of the village which he had set apart for our use, and showed us a large roomy hut which he had destined for the Wazungu; however O'Neill and I preferred to remain in our tent, which we pitched beside it, and stored most of our goods in the hut. Then we strolled down to the beach and had a most refreshing bathe in the cool waters of the Nyanza, and at night we lay down to rest with hearts full of thankfulness to Almighty God who had brought us thus far on our journey, and were soon soothed to sleep by the lullaby of the waves breaking on the rocky shore.

I had thus been exactly six months from Bagarnoyo to Kagei, including all the various delays on the road. The actual number of marches was seventy-four, and the whole distance travelled about eight hundred miles, thus giving an average of nearly eleven miles a day.

The first thing we did, after getting matters a little settled, was to write letters to England, telling our friends of our arrival, and to the Smiths, whom we expected to follow us very soon, to in-'