Note 14 — Chapter III · VISIT TO THE KISULODI-NI MISSION HOUSE.

The route which follows seems to agree, as far as it goes, with the Rev. Mr Wakefield’s No. 3, from Mombasah to Dhaicho. I have not changed my notes, which still appear in my diary of 1857.

1. Mombasah viâ Mkupa to Rabai: 1 full day.

2. Kitakakai in the plains of the Wakamba: 1 day.

3. Mtu ’Ndogoni (M’tu Anggoni of Capt. Guillain?): 1 day.

4. Wamamba of the Doruma: 1 day.

5. Kisima (little well), amongst high hills, with a small reservoir: 1½ day. (This(This appears to be the Ngurunga za Kimiri and Ngurunga za Mlala of Capt. Guillain, and the Gurungani of Mr Wakefield).

6. Dayda (Tayta, the Taveta of Capt. Guillain, which Mr Wakefield makes a corruption of a Kikwavi word, ‘Ndoveta’): 2 days (1 long and 1 short).

7. Ndi, a place infamous for thieves: 1½ day.

8. The Chágo (Zavo) or Tsavo river: 1½ day. (Captain Guillain has a village, Segao.)

9. Mtitowandei: 1½ day.

10. Kikumbulu, or country on the southern frontier of Ukamba: 1 day.

11. The Adi (Sabaki or Sabbak) river, which disembogues itself north of Melinde, unfordable after rains: 1½ day.

12. The Tiwa river in Yatá: 1 day.

13. Nzáu, the land of tobacco: 1½ day.

14. Kitui: 2½ days.

Thence, to the beginning of Kikuyu, the travellers make from 4 to 8 stages. The day’s work would be 9 hours, including 2 of halt, and the distance, assuming the pace to be 2½ miles per hour, would be about 17 miles. Here, say the people, 10 marches do the work of a month on the southern lines, the reason being want of food and water, and fear of enemies.