They told us that if we continued our march we should not get water for four hours, so we rested, having marched four and a quarter hours.
_3rd November, 1872._--We marched this morning to a village where food was reported.

I had to punish two useless men for calling out, "Posho! posho! posho!" (rations) as soon as I came near.

One is a confirmed bange-smoker;[26]the blows were given slightly, but I promised that the next should be severe.

The people of Liemba village having a cow or two, and some sheep and goats, eagerly advised us to go on to the next village, as being just behind a hill, and well provisioned.

Four very rough hills were the penalty of our credulity, taking four hours of incessant toil in these mountain fastnesses.