On a raid three hundred and sixty miles in six days is an ordinary rate of traveling.
Just now they did not seem in much hurry.

They had probably butchered the fighting men of all the villages in their rear, and were well informed as to the disposition of the nearest German forces.

There were probably no Germans within a hundred miles.

There was no telegraph in all those parts.

To notify Muanza by runner and Bagamoyo on the coast from there by wire would take several days.