CHAPTER XXII.

ARRIVAL AT FORT BODO.

Ugarrowwa’s old station once more--March to Bunda--We cross the Ituri River--Note written by me opposite the mouth of the Lenda River--We reach the Avatiko plantations--Mr. Bonny measures a pigmy--History and dress of the pigmies--A conversation by gesture--The pigmy’s wife--Monkeys and other animals in the forest--The clearing of Andaki--Our tattered clothes--The Ihuru River--Scarcity of food; Amani’s meals--Uledi searches for food--Missing provisions--We reach Kilonga-Longa’s village again--More deaths--The forest improves for travelling--Skirmish near Andikumu--Story of the pigmies and the box of ammunition--We pass Kakwa Hill--Defeat of a caravan--The last of the Somalis--A heavy shower of rain--Welcome food discovery at Indemau--We bridge the Dui River--A rough muster of the people--A stray goat at our Ngwetza camp--Further capture of dwarfs--We send back to Ngwetza for plantains--Loss of my boy Saburi in the forest--We wonder what has become of the Ngwetza party--My boy Saburi turns up--Starvation Camp--We go in search of the absentees, and meet them in the forest--The Ihuru River--And subsequent arrival at Fort Bodo 37