During A Fierce Downpour Of Rain, The Porters All Quivering And
Quaking With Cold, We At Length Emerged From The Jungle, And
Entered The Prettiest Spot In Ugogo - The Populous District Of
Usekhe - Where Little Hills And Huge Columns Of Granite Crop Out.
Here we halted.
Next day came the hongo business, which was settled by paying one
dubani, one kitambi, one msutu, four yards merikani, and two
yards kiniki; but whilst we were doing it eight porters ran away,
and four fresh ones were engaged (Wanyamuezi) who had run away
from Kanyenye.
With one more march from this we reached the last district in
Ugogo, Khoko. Here the whole of the inhabitants turned out to
oppose us, imagining we had come there to revenge the Arab,
Mohinna, because the Wagogo attacked him a year ago, plundered
his camp, and drove him back to Kaze, for having shot their old
chief "Short-legs." They, however, no sooner found out who we
were than they allowed us to pass on, and encamp in the outskirts
of the Mgunda Mkhali wilderness. To this position in the bush I
strongly objected, on the plea that guns could be best used
against arrows in the open; but none would go out in the field,
maintaining that the Wagogo would fear to attack us so far from
their villages, as we now were, lest we might cut them off in
their retreat.
Hori Hori was now chief in Short-leg's stead, and affected to be
much pleased that we were English, and not Arabs.
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