KAGEHYI BECOllES A TRADING CENTRE. 
village of Kagehyi, in the üchambi district and country of üsuhuma, 
became after our arrival a place of great local importance. It attracted an 
unusual number of native traders from all sides within a radius of twenty or 
thirty miles. Fishermen from Ukerewé, whose purple hills we saw across the 
^ the lake, came in their canoes, with stores of dried fish ; those of Igusa, 
ima, and Magu, east of us in Usukuma, brought their cassava, or manioc, 
®ud ripe bananas ; the herdsmen of Usmau, thirty miles south of Kagehyi, 
sent their oxen ; and the tribes of Mnanza—famous historically as being the 
Nnt whence Speke first saw this broad gulf of Lake Victoria—brought their 
hoes, iron wire, and salt, besides great plenty of sweet-potatoes and yams. 
Reports of us were carried far along the paths of trade to the countries con- 
hguous to the highways of traffic, because we were in a land which had been, 
■^m time immemorial, a land of gossip and primitive commerce ; and a small 
hand of peaceful natives, accustomed to travel, might explore hundreds of 
Muaré miles in Usukuma without molestation. But though Unyanyembë, 
ÄUd through it Zanzibar, might receive within a few months reliable informa 
tion about our movements, there were countries in the immediate neighbour 
hood of Kagehyi whither traders never venture, which were for ever cut off 
hom the interesting intelligence that there were three white men on the 
shores of the lake, who were said to be most amiable and sociable. Ujiji, far 
sway on Lake I'anganika, might be set to wondering whether they had come 
horn Masr (Cairo) or from Zanzibar, but Wirigedi, close at hand here, on 
Speke Gulf, might still be in profound ignorance of the arrival. Mtesa of 
Uganda might prick up his ears at the gratifying intelligence, and hope they 
"ould soon visit him, while Ukara, though only about twenty-five geographical 
*uiles from Kagehyi, might be excluded for éver from discussing the strange 
topic. The natives of Karagwé and their gentle king might be greatly exer 
cised in their minds with the agreeable news, and wonder whether they, to their 
turn, should ever See the white men, and yet Komeh, 300 miles nearer to us, 
tuight only hear of the wonderful event years after our departure ! Thus it is 
that information is only conveyed along the lines of traffic, and docs not filter 
^Uto those countries which are ostracised from common interests and events 
hy the reputed ferocity of their inhabitants and their jealous hostility to 
strangers, even though they may actually border upon the localities where 
those interests and events are freely discussed. 
Prince Kaduma, truth compels me to state, is a true Central African “ toper ” 
a naturally amiable man, whose natural amiability might bo increased to 
enormous proportions, provided that it was stimulated by endless supplies of 
pombé. From perpetual indulgence in his favourite vice, he has already 
attained to that blear-eyed, thick-tongued, husky-voiced state from which only 
Uionths of total abstinence can redeem a man. In his sober moments—T 
cannot say hours—which were soon after he rose in the morning, he pretended 
to manifest an interest in his cattle-yard, and to be deeply alive to the im- 
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