They were to go close to Mount Choro, and then skirt the Elephant Marsh, with Mount Clarendon on their left.

Their guides seem to have led them away to the east, instead of south; to the upper waters of the Ruo in the Shirwa valley, instead of to its mouth.

Entering an Anguru slave-trading village, they soon began to suspect that the people meant mischief, and just before sunset a woman told some of their men that if they slept there they would all be killed.

On their preparing to leave, the Anguru followed them and shot their arrows at the retreating party.

Two of the carriers were captured, and all the goods were taken by these robbers.