Some Wanyamuezi Porters, Who Had Been Left Sick Here By Former
Caravans, Now Wished To Take Service With Me As Far As Kaze; But
The Wagogo, Hearing Of Their Desire, Frightened Them Off It.
A
report also at this time was brought to us, that a caravan had
just arrived at our last
Ground, having come up from Whindi,
direct by the line of the Wami river, in its upper course called
Mukondokua, without crossing a single hill all the way; I
therefore sent three men to see if they had any porters to spare,
as it was said they had; but the three men, although they left
their bows and arrows behind, never came back.
Another mule died to-day. This was perplexing indeed, but to
stop longer was useless; so we pushed forward as best we could to
a pond at the western end of the district where we found a party
of Makua sportsmen who had just killed an elephant. They had
lived in Ugogo one year and a half, and had killed in all
seventeen elephants; half the tusks of which, as well as some
portion of the flesh, they gave to Magomba for the privilege of
residing there. There were many antelopes there, some of which
both Grant and I shot for the good of the pot, and he also killed
a crocute hyena. From the pond we went on to the middle of a
large jungle, and bivouacked for the night in a shower of rain,
the second of the season.
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