Another accident at the Rapids--The village of Utiri--Avisibba settlement--Enquiry into a murder case at Avisibba--Surprised by the natives--Lieutenant Stairs wounded--We hunt up the enemy--The poisoned arrows--Indifference of the Zanzibaris--Jephson's caravan missing--Our wounded--Perpetual rain--Deaths of Khalfan, Saadi, and others--Arrival of caravan--The Mabengu Rapids--Mustering the people--The Nepoko river--Remarks by Binza--Our food supply--Reckless use of ammunition--Half-way to the Albert Lake--We fall in with some of Ugarrowwa's men--Absconders--We camp at Hippo Broads and Avakubi Rapids--The destroyed settlement of Navabi--Elephants at Memberri--More desertions--The Arab leader, Ugarrowwa--He gives us information--Visit to the Arab settlement--First specimen of the tribe of dwarfs--Arrangements with Ugarrowwa 171 CHAPTER IX. UGARROWWA'S TO KILONGA-LONGA'S. Ugarrowwa sends us three Zanzibari deserters--We make an example--The 'Express' rifles--Conversation with Rashid--The Lenda river--Troublesome rapids--Scarcity of food--Some of Kilonga-Longa's followers--Meeting of the rivers Ihuru and Ituri--State and numbers of the Expedition--Illness of Captain Nelson--We send couriers ahead to Kilonga-Longa's--The sick encampment--Randy and the guinea fowl--Scarcity of food--Illness caused by the forest pears--Fanciful menus--More desertions--Asmani drowned--Our condition in brief--Uledi's suggestion--Umari's climb--My donkey is shot for food--We strike the track of the Manyuema and arrive at their village 211 CHAPTER X. WITH THE MANYUEMA AT IPOTO. The ivory hunters at Ipoto--Their mode of proceeding--The Manyuema headmen and their raids--Remedy for preventing wholesale devastations--Crusade preached by Cardinal Lavigerie--Our Zanzibar chiefs--Anxiety respecting Captain Nelson and his followers--Our men sell their weapons for food--Theft of rifles--Their return demanded--Uledi turns up with news of the missing chiefs--Contract drawn up with the Manyuema headmen for the relief of Captain Nelson--Jephson's report on his journey--Reports of Captain Nelson and Surgeon Parke--The process of blood brotherhood between myself and Ismaili--We leave Ipoto 236 CHAPTER XI. THROUGH THE FOREST TO MAZAMBONI'S PEAK.