As to be able to hoe up two or three
inches of soil, into which they cast their seed, confident of
return.
The next day was a halt at Kikoka; the fourth caravan,
consisting solely of Wanyamwezi, proving a sore obstacle to a
rapid advance. Maganga, its chief, devised several methods of
extorting more cloth and presents from me, he having cost already
more than any three chiefs together; but his efforts were of no
avail further than obtaining promises of reward if he would hurry
on to Unyanyembe so that I might find my road clear.
On the 2(7?)th, the Wanyamwezi having started, we broke camp soon
after at 7 am. The country was of the same nature as that lying
between the Kingani and Kikokaa park land, attractive and beautiful
in every feature.
I rode in advance to secure meat should a chance present itself,
but not the shadow of vert or venison did I see. Ever in our
front - westerly - rolled the land-waves, now rising, now subsiding,
parallel one with the other, like a ploughed field many times
magnified. Each ridge had its knot of jungle or its thin combing
of heavily foliaged trees, until we arrived close to Rosako, our
next halting place, when the monotonous wavure of the land
underwent a change, breaking into independent hummocks clad with
dense jungle.
