130 RUBAGA TO MRULI.

appear to exist here. An antelope (Antilope leucotis) proved a welcome addition to our larder. | Next morning we continued our journey between solid walls of grass, which shut out all view; park land, intercepted by numerous morasses, followed, giving place in its turn to open country, where a broad road is being made over the red clay soil. ‘This road leads to Bukrasa, a pretty, scattered village, where we rested. A splendid view was obtained here of Ugungu, the headquarters of Kangani, towards the lofty mountain of Bova. After passing over a high hill we descended to the brook Kairira, which, on our journey to Rubaga, we had forded farther down, and we refreshed ourselves with its clear icy cold water, which rushes over granite fragments.

Shortly afterwards we reached Briaki, where we were to pass the night, and, to our astonishment, we found there two of our missing loads, but of course not the ones we wanted. After a heavy thunderstorm had passed over us, I employed the time in shooting guinea-fowl in order to provide food for my men. Briaki is situated on the verge of a hill which slopes down into a jungle of reed and grass. Swamps, overgrown with sedges, intercept at places these grassy expanses, and we only very seldom met with cultivated ground upon the road, which, passing by the huts of Guru, brought us to some outlying houses of the same village. Here we encamped amongst thousands of mosquitos. ‘This district is so thickly populated that there was no chance of sport.

Katikiro’s man came back and told me that all my goods had been sent off from Rubaga, and were on the way, but that where they were was uncertain. He added that Katikiro had confiscated all Mukasa’s wives, as he had been the cause of this confusion. We found quantities of Phaseolus lunatus and P. mungo in the huts, as well as small stores of dried locusts.

From Guru the road leads through some mud runnels, but the country is for the most part lightly wooded, and covered with high termite hills. After a time we reached verdant hills, on one of which was situated a small village inhabited by Wahtma herdsmen. A number of dome-shaped huts, which shelter both men and beasts, were surrounded by a high thorn