The Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke  






 -   It was
the first fine day for a fortnight, so we were only too glad to
put all our things - Page 106
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It Was The First Fine Day For A Fortnight, So We Were Only Too Glad To Put All Our Things Out To Dry, And Rejoiced To Think Of The Stream's Subsiding.

My men who went back to Khoko for grain having returned with next to nothing - though, of course, they

Had spent all the cloths - I sent back another batch with pretty cloths, as it was confidently stated that grain was so scarce there, nothing but the best fabrics would but it. This also proved a dead failure; but although animals were very scarce, Grant relieved our anxiety by shooting a zebra and an antelope.

After five halts, we forded the stream, middle deep, and pushed forwards again, doing short stages of four or five miles a-day, in the greatest possible confusion; for, whilst Grant and I were compelled to go out shooting all day for the pot, the sheikh and Bombay went on with the first half of the property and then, keeping guard over it sent the men back again to Baraka, who kept rear-guard, to have the rest brought on. Order there was none: the men hated this "double work;" all the Wanyamuezi but three deserted, with the connivance of the coast-men, carrying off their loads with them, under a mutual understanding, as I found out afterwards, that the coast-men were to go shares in the plunder as soon as we reached Unyamuezi. The next great obstacle in this tug-and-pull wilderness-march presented itself on the 24th, when, after the first half of the property had crossed the Mabunguru nullah, it rose in flood and cut off the rear half.

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