The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume IX, No. 4 [‎196r] (62/172)

TWO YEARS’ TRAVEL IN UGANDA, UNYORO, AND ON THE UPPER NILE. 379
twenty-two days for a loaded caravan going up country, with the excep
tion of the Eldoma station, which has only been made latterly, and is
unable to supply caravans with food. In addition to this, the difficulties
had been increased by the Wa Nandi being hostile, and waylaying
caravans on the main route between the top of the Man escarpment
and Kabras, in consequence of which the Guaso Masa post had been
established.
We could get very little information about the Nandi country, and
had to trust principally to two Wa Kwavi, who had been in the country
years before; to a Zanzibari porter, the sole survivor of West’s party;
MOSINDI FORT, UNYORO, MOUNT FUMBt.
and a Nandi woman, who had fallen in love with him, and helped him
to escape. He had been sent into the country by West for the purpose
of trading, and was away at the time of the massacre; he was then
taken before the Laibon, or head medicine man, and kept a prisoner
until this woman left her own husband, children, and country, and
assisted him to escape. The man had picked up the language m a very
From where we turned off the caravan road, a high black wall ol
mountains could be seen in front of us, running from north to sou ,
when it becomes less perceptible. The upper slopes were covered with
dense forest, which in some cases extended a little way down the
escarpment. We soon left the last Kabras villages, in one of which the