Shoes, and patching up the great rents in my clothes, which
the thorn species, during the late marches, had almost destroyed.
Westward, beyond Mrera, was a wilderness, the transit of which we
were warned would occupy nine days hence arose the necessity to
purchase a large supply of grain, which, ere attempting the great
uninhabited void in our front, was to be ground and sifted.
CHAPTER XI. THROUGH UKAWENDI, UVINZA, AND UHHA, TO UJIJI.
Happy auspices, - Ant-hills. - The water-shed of the Tanganika Lion.
- The king of Kasera. - The home of the lion and the leopard. -
A donkey frightens a leopard - Sublime scenes in Kawendi, - Starvation
imminent. - Amenities of travel in Africa. - Black-mailers. - The
stormy children of Uhha. - News of a white man. - Energetic
marches - Mionvu, chief of tribute-takers. - An escape at
midnight. - Toiling through the jungles. - The Lake Mountains. -
First view of the Tanganika. - Arrival at Ujiji, - The happy meeting
with Livingstone.
We bade farewell to Mrera on the 17th of October, to continue our
route north-westward. All the men and I were firm friends now;
all squabbling had long ceased. Bombay and I had forgotten our
quarrel; the kirangozi and myself were ready to embrace, so loving
and affectionate were the terms upon which we stood towards one
another.
