and colonies of baobab, through a country teeming with noble game, which, though we saw them frequently, were yet as safe from our rifles as if we had been on the Indian Ocean.  A terekeza, such as we were now making, admits of no delay.  Water we had left behind at noon:  until noon of the next day not a drop was to be obtained; and unless we marched fast and long on this day, raging thirst would demoralize everybody.  So for six long weary hours we toiled bravely; and at sunset we camped, and still a march of two hours, to be done before the sun was an hour high, intervened between us and our camp at Nyambwa.  That night the men bivouacked under the trees, surrounded by many miles of dense forest, enjoying the cool night unprotected by hat or tent, while I groaned and tossed throughout the night in a paroxysm of fever.

The morn came; and, while it was yet young, the long caravan, or string of caravans, was under way.  It was the same forest, admitting, on the narrow line which we threaded, but one man at a time.  Its view was as limited.  To our right and left the forest was dark and deep.  Above was a riband of glassy sky flecked by the floating nimbus.  We heard nothing save a few stray notes from a flying bird, or the din of the caravans as the men sang, or hummed, or conversed, or shouted, as the thought struck them that we were nearing water.  One of my pagazis, wearied and sick, fell, and never rose again.  The last of the caravan passed him before he died.

At 7 A.M. we were encamped at Nyambwa, drinking the excellent water found here with the avidity of thirsty camels.  Extensive fields of grain had heralded the neighbourhood of the villages, at the sight of which we were conscious that the caravan was quickening its pace, as approaching its halting-place.  As the Wasungu drew within the populated area, crowds of Wagogo used their utmost haste to see them before they passed by.  Young and old of both genders pressed about us in a multitude—­a very howling mob.  This excessive demonstrativeness elicited from my sailor overseer the characteristic remark, " Well, I declare, these must be the genuine Ugogians, for they stare! stare—­there is no end to their staring.  I’m almost tempted to slap ’em in the face!” In fact, the conduct of the Wagogo of Nyambwa was an exaggeration of the general conduct of Wagogo.  Hitherto, those we had met had contented themselves with staring and shouting; but these outstepped all bounds, and my growing anger at their excessive insolence vented itself in gripping the rowdiest of them by the neck, and before he could recover from his astonishment administering a sound thrashing with my dog-whip, which he little relished.  This proceeding educed from the tribe of starers all their native power of vituperation and abuse, in expressing which they were peculiar.  Approaching in manner to angry tom-cats, they jerked their words with something of a splitting hiss and a half bark.  The ejaculation, as near