use of prefixes Wa—, M—, U—, and Ki—, according
to which Wa-gogo means the people of Gogo,
M-gogo is a Gogo man, U-gogo the country of
Gogo, and Ki-gogo the language of Gogo.

And now for the successful journey to the
Source of the Nile. On the thirtieth of July,
eighteen 'fifty-eight, Captain Speke had
discovered the great equatorial lake, Victoria
N'yanza, lying chiefly south of the equator, and
three thousand seven hundred and forty feet
above the sea level. This lake he believed to
be the long-sought source of the Nile. And so,
with his old friend and fellow-sportsman in
India, CAPTAIN GRANT, for a comrade, and with
a grant from government to sustain him in his
enterprise, Captain Speke left England again to
prove the truth of his opinion, reached Zanzibar,
crossed from Zanzibar to the mainland, and in
October, eighteen hundred and sixty, passed
through the region known as Uzaramo. His
caravan consisted of a corporal and nine
privates, Hottentots, small, weakly, and burdensome;
a jemadar and twenty-five privates,
Beluchs, these latter being only an escort,
offered by the Sultan of Zanzibar, through
Uziramo. Then again of the regular expedition
there was an Arab caravan captain directing
seventy-five freed slaves, there were a hundred
negro porters and their leader, twelve untrained
mules laden with ammunition-boxes, three
donkeys for the sick, and two-and-twenty goats.
Ten men who had received bounty money ran
away because they believed the white men to
be cannibals, who were taking them into the
interior to eat them. These took their money
with them; but another man put his hire down
on the ground before he fled. After about
a week's march, eight more men decamped
with the goats. Captain Speke's duty on the
march was to map the country, sketch, keep
a diary, make geological and zoological collections.
Captain Grant made the botanical collections,
attended to the thermometer, kept the
rain-gauge, and undertook the photography; but
the photographic apparatus was soon sent back,
as the heat to be endured in the little tent while
preparing and fixing plates was too severe work
for the climate. Captain Grant, therefore,
substituted sketching in water-colour.

The way was next through the uplands of
Usagara, where the lean people in a fertile land
habitually fly before the sound of an approaching
caravan, warned by their long experience of
slave-hunting treachery. Captain Grant had
his attack of fever without loss of time; it
seized on him before the month was out, and
instead of passing away after the first year, as
Speke's had done on the former journey, it
stuck to him, recurring every fortnight till the
journey ended.

Having mounted by the hilly Usagara range
to the more level lands of the interior, the
travellers were in the wild region of Ugogo,
where the people, of a ruddy brown black, are
of the colour of a rich plum, form tembé or
mud villages about all the water-springs, keep
plenty of cattle, and farm enough to supply
both themselves and the thousands who annually
pass in caravans. But they are so avaricious
and intrusive that caravans never enter their
villages, but camp outside among the "gouty-
limbed trees" that often encircle these villages
with a ring fence of thorns. The Ugogo were
found partly famishing. The springs were so
dry, that water fetched the price of the country
beer; and the small stores of grain were being
mixed with the monkey-bread seeds of the
gouty-limbed tree. Captain Speke shot, one
night, his first rhinoceros, and fetched his men
to get its meat before the hungry Wagogo could
find it. But the tough skin could hardly be
cut through, before the Wagogo had gathered
about the dead beast like vultures, and fallen to
work on it among the men of the exploring
party " with swords, spears, knives and hatchets;
cutting and slashing, thumping and bawling,
fighting and tearing, tumbling and wrestling up
to their knees in filth and blood in the middle
of the carcase. When a tempting morsel fell to
the possession of any one, a stranger neighbour
would seize and bear off the prize in triumph.
Right was now a matter of mere might, and
lucky it was," says Captain Speke, " that it
did not end in a fight between our men and the
villagers. These might afterwards be seen, one
by one, covered with blood, scampering home,
each with his spoil—a piece of tripe, or liver,
or lights, or whatever else it might have been
his fortune to get off with." A nice picture
of the noble savage—always an ignoble
creature! In one day's buffalo shooting Captain
Speke was three times charged upon by
his game; then war was threatened by a
native chief who could not extort all he desired
in the hongo, or toll for use of the ground, that
had to be argued over and settled at every
village, as systematically as the European
traveller must settle with his landlord at every
hotel. Then followed eight successive marches
through the wilderness, after the porters had
already been reduced to living on wild herbs
and white ants. Before the end of the next
January ('sixty-one), when they had reached
Unyamuezi, the Country of the Moon, more than
half the explorers' property had been stolen;
the famine in the land had made the travelling
expenses unprecedented; twelve mules and the
three donkeys were dead; one Hottentot was
dead, five had returned, and, after a reinforcement
on the way, more than a hundred men had
deserted.

The region known as Unyamuezi, or the
Country of the Moon, is not much smaller than
England. The natives have no historical traditions,
but their forefathers were first called,
in ancient time by the Hindus who traded with
the east coast of Africa, Men of the Moon,
associated with whom there first arose what was
written of the Mountains of the Moon. These
men are now, as they were in ancient time, the
greatest traders in Africa; they are the only
people of the interior who, for love of trade and
change, will leave their own country as porters,
and account it a pleasure to go down to the