Identifier: eighteenyearsinu00tuck (find matches)
Title: Eighteen years in Uganda & East Africa
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Tucker, Alfred Robert, 1849-1914
Subjects: Church of England Missions -- Africa, East Africa, East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and. Of a truth, with the exception of these few hills and rocks, thecountry is a sandy waste. The inhabitants of the few villageswe came across have to dig deep down into the earth for water.Some of these holes are 30 feet deep. They were our only hopeof water. How eagerly we looked down into their depths as wecame across them! Our second march in Ugogo was distinctlymore trying than the first, still we held upon our way, upbornewith the hope of fresh and sweet water. This happily we foundas we halted at Mizanza. CHAPTER VII THE GOAL WON—UGANDA (1890) So He brii geth them unto their desired haven.—Psalm cvii. 30. The Mgunda Mkali is a forest dreaded by all caravans, andreasonaljly so. First of all it is very nearly a hundred miles fromone side to the other ; and in the second place there is so littlewater and food to be had, that the burdens men have to carryare increased almost to breaking-down point. The consequenceis that almost every day, in every large caravan, men faint and
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THE GOAL WON—UGANDA 33 die. The road is littered with the skeletons and skulls of thosewho have fallen. In addition to all this, certain parts of the forest are infestedwith Ruga-Ruga —that is to say, forest robbers. Thesewretches hide in the bush, and watch for the weak and wearymen of the caravan who are lagging behind, and pounce uponthem with spear and hatchet with deadly effect. Of course, theirobject is plunder—the loads carried by the porters. For several days all went well until the Ruga-Ruga madeknown their presence by spearing two men to death, and verynearly killing a third by fracturing his skull with a hatchet.Of course, the loads were carried off, and the thieves untrackedand untraced. On Saturday, September 20, we reached the Ututuru Wells.These wells are narrow and the shafts deep—some seventy feet.According to our custom, we arrived first at the camping-ground,and were able, with the assistance of our tent-ropes, to getsufficient water for our use before the a

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