CHAPTER XIV.

OUR REWARD--SUCCESS.

Scenery--In an Arab craft to Ujiji--More Scenery --After twenty-seven days Speke returns--A fight--Are received with honour--A caravan arrives--Geographical remarks--Troublesome following--Forest on fire--He sends Speke to find the Nyanza--The Chief Suna--Richard collects a vocabulary--Speke returns and the differences arose--Richard soliloquizes on Speke's change of front--For geographers--The kindness of Musa Mzuri and Snay bin Amir--Speke's illness--They cross the "Fiery Field"--An official wigging--Christmas Day, 1858--Speke leaves Richard ill, but apparently friendly.