Then men were appointed as guides and protectors, to look after us as far as the border.

What an honour! We had come into the country drawn there by a combination of pride and avarice and now we were leaving it in hot haste under the guidance of an escort of officers, who were in reality appointed to watch us as dangerous wizards and objects of terror.

It was all the same to us, as we now only thought of the prospect of relief before us, and laughed at what we had gone through.
Rising out of the Uthungu valley, we walked over rolling ground, drained in the dips by miry rush rivulets.

The population was thinly scattered in small groups of grass huts, where the scrub jungle had been cleared away.

On the road we passed cairns, to which every passer-by contributed a stone.