The
Valleys, Watered By Little Brooks, Are Far Richer, And Even
Prettier, Than The High Lands Above, Being Lined With
Fine trees
and evergreen shrubs; while the general state of prosperity was
such, that the people could afford, even at
This late season of
the year, to turn their corn into malt to brew beer for sale; and
goats and fowls were plentiful in the market.
Passing by the old village of Mbuiga, which I occupied on my
former expedition, we entered some huts on the western flank of
the Mbuiga district; and here, finding a coast-man, a great
friend of the little sheikh's, willing to take back to Zanzibar
anything we might give him, a halt was made, and I drew up my
reports. I then consigned to his charge three of the most sickly
of the Hottentots in a deplorable condition - one of the mules,
that they might ride by turns - and all the specimens that had
been collected. With regret I also sent back the camera; because
I saw, had I allowed my companion to keep working it, the heat he
was subjected to in the little tent whilst preparing and fixing
his plates would very soon have killed him. The number of
guinea-fowl seen here was most surprising.
A little lighter and much more comfortable for the good riddance
of those grumbling "Tots," we worked up to and soon breasted the
stiff ascent of the Mabruki Pass, which we surmounted without
much difficult. This concluded the first range of these Usagara
hills; and once over, we dropped down to the elevated valley of
Makata, where we halted two days to shoot.
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