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DONKEYS AND DOGS. 



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One great difficulty was providing carriers for Murphy, who 

 was still ill from fever, owing, in a great measure, to his having 

 neglected the use of quinine. 



Being no light weight, he required three relays of four men 

 each, thus making a serious drag on our means of carriage, and 

 the six donkeys he had brought up were so knocked about that 

 they were unfit for work. It taxed all the ingenuity of myself 

 and Issa to put matters straight. 



The total strength of the expedition at this time consisted of 

 Dillon, Murphy, and myself, Issa (our store-keeper), thirty-five 

 askari (including Bombay, who was supposed to command them), 

 one hundred and ninety -two pagazi, six servants, cooks, and 

 gun-bearers, and three boys. We had also twenty -two donkeys 

 and three dogs, and several of the men had with them women 

 and slaves, so that, numerically, we were an imposing force. 



May, 



1873. 



RIDING DONKEYS. 



Our total losses up to this time among our men had been — 

 one askari and one pagazi by death, and thirty-eight pagazi by 

 desertion : one donkey had died at Shamba Gonera ; and anoth- 

 er, having been lamed by a kick from one of his companions, 

 was left by Murphy at Bagamoj'O. 



As regards our arms, Dillon and I each possessed, besides re- 

 volvers, a double-barreled No. 12 rifle, and a fowling-piece of the 

 same bore, all by Lang ; and right good weapons they proved. 



