204 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



Ali now rises and makes a short, formal speech. ''The 

 bwana understands safaris. The bwana has been on 

 many safaris. When men do their work well, bwana 

 is good; but when they do their work badly, then he is 

 kali Sana. "* 



Well pleased with all this because (a) this man needed 

 stiffening badly, (b) it showed the safari men that I 

 know my business, and, above all (c), the Ungruimi 

 were present and heard, and the affair has helped my 

 prestige with them. 



I now retired to my cot. The sultan and his im- 

 mediate suite crowded in after me. 



Missambi is a bright, intelligent boy of twelve or 

 thirteen, with a rather fine-cut face, big soft eyes, and 

 engaging manners. He has been thoroughly educated 

 by the Germans to read and write Swahili, and has been 

 taken to Shirati and Ikoma for short residences. In 

 consequence he knows a good deal of white men's in- 

 stitutions, and even described to me a bicycle, calHng 

 it a "gharri ya quenda'^ — "a vehicle for going." Evi- 

 dently he has been trained by the Germans to rule 

 under German supervision. His ''right-hand man " and 

 general playmate is a boy of about his o\vn age, a 

 youth with a broad, square forehead quite out of the 

 usual negro type. His immediate influences are: first, 

 a young man of about twenty-five or so, an eager, cal- 

 culating, energetic, politic, rather truculent individual; 



* Verj' fierce. 



