We were shown some filthy huts that were to form our camp.

The spot was swarming with mosquitoes, and we had nothing to eat except a few fowls that I had brought with me.
Kamrasi was on the OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER; they had cunningly separated us from him, and had returned with the canoes.

Thus we were prisoners upon the swamp.

This was our welcome from the King of Unyoro! I now heard that Speke and Grant had been lodged in this same spot.
Ibrahim was extremely nervous, as were also my men.

They declared that treachery was intended, as the boats had been withdrawn, and they proposed that we should swim the river and march back to our main party, who had been left three hours in the rear.