About A Quarter Of Mile From The Ford I Met The Van Of The Laggards - Stout Burly Chowpereh - And, O Cartmakers, Listen! He Carried The Cart On His Head - Wheels, Shafts, Body, Axle, And All Complete; He Having Found That Carrying It Was Much Easier Than Drawing It.

The sight was such a damper to my regard for it as an experiment, that the cart was wheeled into the depths of the tall reeds, and there left.

The central figure was Shaw himself, riding at a gait which seemed to leave it doubtful on my mind whether he or his animal felt most sleepy. Upon expostulating with him for keeping the caravan so long waiting when there was a march on hand, in a most peculiar voice - which he always assumed when disposed to be ugly-tempered - he said he had done the best he could; but as I had seen the solemn pace at which he rode, I felt dubious about his best endeavours; and of course there was a little scene, but the young European mtongi of an East African expedition must needs sup with the fellows he has chosen.

We arrived at Madete at 4 P.M., minus two donkeys, which had stretched their weary limbs in death. We had crossed the Mukondokwa about 3 P.M., and after taking its bearings and course, I made sure that its rise took place near a group of mountains about forty miles north by west of Nguru Peak. Our road led W.N.W., and at this place finally diverged from the river.

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