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ACEOSS AFRICA. 



[Chap. 



March, 

 1873. 



his sword near any of us, we should immediately shoot him 

 down. 



Thus this disagreeable business was concluded, and, I believe, 

 did us no injury, but rather good; as it proved that although 

 we would not allow ourselves to be insulted with impunity ^^ we 

 were not at all vindictive. 



Yery shortly afterward we moved to Shamba Gonera, and 

 pitched our tents under a clump of large mango-trees on an 

 open grassy slope, at the bottom of which was a stream run- 

 ning to the Kingani. The donkeys, numbering twenty -four, 

 were picketed at night in two lines, and in the day-time were 

 tethered in such places as afforded good grass and shade, the 

 riding donkeys having, in addition, a feed of corn. 





CAMP AT BUAMBA QONEKA. 



Much opposition to our obtaining porters being still offered 

 at Bagamoyo, and the people, taking advantage of our desire to 

 start, becoming more extortionate, I wrote to Dr. Kirk, asking if 

 he would pay us a visit, in order to show that we were still un- 

 der the aegis of the British Government. Although very busy, 

 he came almost innnediately in the Daphne^ and used his in- 

 fluence, which is greater than that of any one else at Zanzibar, 

 to assist us. 



