An excuse, that feeling fatigued he
had fallen asleep in some bushes a few feet from the roadside.
Having been the cause of our detention in the hungry wilderness of
Ugombo, I was not in a frame of mind to forgive him; so, to
prevent any future truant tricks on his part, I was under the
necessity of including him with the chained gangs of runaways.
Two more of our donkeys died, and to prevent any of the valuable
baggage being left behind, I was obliged to send Farquhar off on my
own riding-ass to the village of Mpwapwa, thirty miles off, under
charge of Mabruki Burton.
To save the Expedition from ruin, I was reluctantly compelled to
come to the conclusion that it were better for me, for him, and
concerned, that he be left with some kind chief of a village,
with a six months' supply of cloth and beads, until he got well,
than that he make his own recovery impossible.
The 16th of May saw us journeying over the plain which lies
between Ugombo and Mpwapwa, skirting close, at intervals, a low
range of trap-rock, out of which had become displaced by some
violent agency several immense boulders.
