WELCOMED AT KAGEHYI. 
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The song, though extemporised, was eminently dramatic, and when the chorus 
joined in, it made the hills ring with a wild and strange harmony. Re 
animated by the cheerful music, we flung the flags to the breeze, and filed 
ßlowly down the slopes towards the fields of Kagehyi. 
About half a mile from the villages we were surprised by seeing hundreds- 
of warriors decked with feathered head-dresses and armed to the teeth, 
advancing on the run towards us, and exhibiting, as they came, their dexterity 
'vith bows and arrows and spears. They had at first been alarmed at the- 
long procession filing down the hill, imagining that we were the ubiquitous 
Miram bo and his force, but, though discovering their error, they still thought 
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YIKW OF KAQEim FROM THE EIXÎE OF THE LAKE. 
(^Frotn a photograph,') 
it too good an opportunity to be lost for showing their bravery, and therefore- 
amused us with this byplay. Sungoro Tarib, an Arab resident at Kagehyi, 
also despatched a messenger with words of welcome, and an invitation to us 
to make Kagehyi our camp, as Prince Kaduma, chief of Kageh-yi, was his 
faithful ally. 
In a short time we had entered the wretched-looking village, and Kaduma 
tvas easily induced by Sungoro to proffer hospitalities to the strangers. A 
('mall conical hut about 20 feet in diameter, badly lighted, and with a strong, 
smell of animal matter—its roof swarmed with bold rats, which, with a 
malicious persistence, tept popping in and out of their nests in the straw roof