As A Travelling Arab
Informed Me That The Whole Of The Maroro District Had Been Laid
Waste By The Marauding Wahehe, I Changed Our Plans Again, And
Directed Our Attention To A Middle And Entirely New Line, Which
In The End Would Lead Us To Ugogi.
The first and only giraffe
killed upon the journey was here shot by Grant, with a little 40-
gauge Lancaster rifle, at 200 yards' distance.
Some smaller
animals were killed; but I wasted all my time in fruitlessly
stalking some wounded striped eland - magnificent animals, as
large as Delhi oxen - and some other animals, of which I wounded
three, about the size of hartebeest, and much their shape, only
cream-coloured, with a conspicuous black spot in the centre of
each flank. The eland may probably be the animal first mentioned
by Livingstone, but the other animal is not known.
Though reluctant to leave a place where such rare animals were to
be found, the fear of remaining longer on the road induced us to
leave Kikobogo, and at a good stride we crossed the flat valley
of Makata, and ascended the higher lands beyond, where we no
sooner arrived than we met the last down trader from Unyamuezi,
well known to all my men as the great Mamba or Crocodile. Mamba,
dressed in a dirty Arab gown, with coronet of lion's nails
decorating a thread-bare cutch cap, greeted us with all the
dignity of a savage potentate surrounded by his staff of half-
naked officials.
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