These Might Be Afterwards Seen, One By One, Covered
With Blood, Scampering Home Each With His Spoil - A Piece Of
Tripe, Or Liver, Or Lights, Or Whatever Else It Might Have Been
His Fortune To Get Off With.
We were still in great want of men; but rather than stop a day,
as all delays only lead to more difficulties, I pushed on to
Magomba's palace with the assistance of some Wagogo carrying our
baggage, each taking one cloth as his hire.
The chief wazir at
once come out to meet me on the way, and in an apparently affable
manner, as an old friend, begged that I would live in the palace-
-a bait which I did not take, as I knew my friend by experience a
little too well. he then, in the politest possible manner, told
me that a great dearth of food was oppressing the land - so much
so, that pretty cloths only would purchase grain. I now wished
to settle my hongo, but the great chief could not hear of such
indecent haste.
The next day, too, the chief was too drunk to listen to any one,
and I must have patience. I took out this time in the jungles
very profitably, killing a fine buck and doe antelope, of a
species unknown. These animals are much about the same size and
shape as the common Indian antelope, and, like them, roam about
in large herds. The only marked difference between the two is in
the shape of their horns, as may be seen by the woodcut; and in
their colour, in which, in both sexes, the Ugogo antelopes
resemble the picticandata gazelle of Tibet, except that the
former have dark markings on the face.
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