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Next Released The Prisoners, Much To Their Disgust, For They Had
Not Known Such Good Feeding Before, And Dreaded Being Turned
Adrift Again In The Jungles To Live On Calabash Seeds; And Then,
After Shooting Six Guinea-Fowl, Turned In For The Night.
Betimes in the morning we were off, mounting the Robeho, a good
stiff ascent, covered with trees and large
Blocks of granite,
excepting only where cleared for villages; and on we went
rapidly, until at noon the advance party was reached, located in
a village overlooking the great interior plateau - a picture, as
it were, of the common type of African scenery. Here, taking a
hasty meal, we resumed the march all together, descended the
great western chain, and, as night set in, camped in a ravine at
the foot of it, not far from the great junction-station Ugogi,
where terminate the hills of Usagara.
Chapter IV
Ugogo, and the Wilderness of Mgunda Mkhali
The Lie of the Country - Rhinoceros-Stalking - Scuffle of Villagers
over a Carcass - Chief "Short-Legs" and His Successors - Buffalo-
Shooting - Getting Lost - A Troublesome Sultan - Desertions from the
Camp - Getting Plundered - Wilderness March - Diplomatic Relations
with the Local Powers - Manua Sera's Story - Christmas - The Relief
from Kaze
This day's work led us from the hilly Usagara range into the more
level lands of the interior. Making a double march of it, we
first stopped to breakfast at the quiet little settlement of
Inenge, where cattle were abundant, but grain so scarce that the
villagers were living on calabash seeds.
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