. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa . ater to sell. Our camp quickly became a very pan-demonium of trade. I was deeply interested in witness-ing for the first time the queer scenes of an Africanmarket. And what a market it was, to be sure! Howthe Wa-Duruma savages laughed and screeched as theyhaggled and bargained with the porters over the priceof a patriarchal rooster or an egg with a chicken in it!Surely they must all be crazy, and the person who be-lieved all uncivilized people to be insane must havespent an evening at Sambura and seen these same sav-ages, their bodies plastered with an o
. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa . ater to sell. Our camp quickly became a very pan-demonium of trade. I was deeply interested in witness-ing for the first time the queer scenes of an Africanmarket. And what a market it was, to be sure! Howthe Wa-Duruma savages laughed and screeched as theyhaggled and bargained with the porters over the priceof a patriarchal rooster or an egg with a chicken in it!Surely they must all be crazy, and the person who be-lieved all uncivilized people to be insane must havespent an evening at Sambura and seen these same sav-ages, their bodies plastered with an odorous mixtureof grease and ochre, laughing and whooping like com-mercial maniacs over the price of a skinny fowl or agourd of water. Many of the porters had broughtfrom Zanzibar pieces of cloth or a few strings of beads,and with these they bought such luxuries as chickensand addled eggs to increase their days rations to agourmets feast. Our men were happy, as negroes always are, whentheir immediate wants arc supplied, and in the early. THE MARCH TO TAVETA. 31 morning we found some of them washing their faces inour high-priced water, under the impression that wewere going to buy more to fill their gourds for thesecond time. Several had deserted with their gunsduring the night, rascals who had joined the expeditionfor the advance pay and the chance of making off witha gun, and having touched lip to the hardships of theNyika, many others in plaintive tones talked of a re-treat to Rabai, At Taro we found, fortunately, plenty of water inseveral curious round, well-like holes in masses of rocks are on the top of Taro Hill, and the circu-lar holes, or ungurunga, as our Wa-Teita contingentcalled them, are worthy of mention as curious naturalphenomena. The ungurunga of Taro Hill are asource of wonderment even to the unreflecting holes are anywhere from two to four feet in diame-ter and from four to twelve deep, and such is their uni-formity of outline that it seem
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