And I never saw it again, though I knew I had struck it
from the bloody trail it left; neither did I see nor hear anything
more of the lions. I searched far and wide over the park-land for
prey of some kind, but was compelled to return unsuccessful to camp.
Disgusted with my failure, we started a little after noon for
Manyara, at which place we were hospitably greeted by my friend,
who had sent men to tell me that his white brother must not halt
in the woods but must come to his village. "We received a present
of honey and food from the chief, which was most welcome to us in
our condition. Here was an instance of that friendly disposition
among Central African chiefs when they have not been spoiled by
the Arabs, which Dr. Livingstone found among the Babisa and
Ba-ulungu, and in Manyuema. I received the same friendly
recognition from all the chiefs, from Imrera, in Ukawendi,
to Unyanyembe, as I did from Ma-manyara.
On the 14th we arrived at Ugunda, and soon after we had established
ourselves comfortably in a hut which the chief lent us for our use,
in came Ferajji and Chowpereh, bringing with them Sarmean and Uledi
Manwa Sera, who, it will be recollected, were the two soldiers sent
to Zanzibar with letters and who should Sarmean have in charge but
the deserter Hamdallah, who decamped at Manyara, as we were going
to Ujiji.
