end. The same jungle prevails on all sides,
excluding all view; and the only signs of man's existence in these wilds
lay in the meagre path, which is often lost, and an occasional hut or
two, the temporary residence of the sporting Kidi people.

After toiling five miles through the same terrible grasses, and crossing
swamp after swamp, we were at last rewarded by a striking view. The
jungles had thinned; we found ourselves unexpectedly standing on the
edge of a plateau, on the west of which, for distance interminable, lay
apparently a low flat country of grass, yellowed by the sun, with a
few trees or shrubs only thinly scattered over the surface; while,
from fifteen to twenty miles in the rear, bearing south by west, stood
conspicuously the hill of Kisuga, said to be situated in Chopi, not far
from the refractory brothers. But this view was only for the moment;
again we dived into the grasses and forced our way along. Presently
elephants were seen, also buffalo; and the guide, to make the journey
propitious, plucked a twig, denuded it of its leaves and branches, waved
it like a wand up the line of march, muttered some unintelligible words
to himself, broke it in twain, and threw the separated bits on either
side of the path.

Immediately after starting, the guide ran up on an ant-hill and pointed
out to us all the glories of the country round. In our rear we could
see back upon Wire and the hill of Kisuga; to the west were the same
low plains of grass; east and by south, the jungles of Kidi; and to the
northward, over downs of grass, the tops of some hills, which marked the
neighbouring village of Koki, which we were making for. Its appearance
in the distance warned us that we were closing on the habitations of
men, and we were told that Bombay had drunk pombe there. Then plunging
through grass again over our heads, and crossing constant swamps, we
arrived at a stream which drains all these lands to westward, and rested
a while that the men might bathe, and also that they might set fire
to the grass as a telegraph to the settlement of Koko, to apprise the
people of our advance, and be ready with their pombe ere our arrival.
Shortly after, towards the close of the day's work, as a solitary
buffalo was seen grazing by a brook, I put a bullet through him, and
allowed the savages the pleasure of despatching him in their own wild
fashion with spears.

It was a sight quite worthy of a little delay. No sooner was it observ