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Charming as the idea might have been to the native mind, July, 

 we scarcely appreciated being looked npon as a sort of Womb- i^*^^- 

 well's menagerie, traveling for the amusement of the natives. 

 Admission, too, was not only free, but we were actually obliged 

 to pay for permission to come into the country to be stared at. 



On the day of our arrival, a caravan belonging to Said ibn 

 Salim al Lamki, the Arab governor at Unyanyembe, came in 

 from that place, bound for the coast, with a large quantity of 

 ivory, intended for the purchase of powder for carrying on the 

 lighting against Mirambo, who was still unconquered. But the 

 Arabs were determined, as soon as further supplies of ammuni- 

 tion and re-enforcements arrived, to strike such a blow as should 

 finish him completely. 



Some of the tusks were so immense that they required two 

 men to carry them ; and an idea of their weight may be formed 

 when it is remembered that a Mnyamwezi porter will bear one 

 hundred and twenty pounds of ivory as a load. Although con- 

 tent with single hire, the carriers of these enormous weights re- 

 quire double and treble rations, and, whenever they feel so in- 

 clined, compel the leaders of caravans to halt. 



Among the hangers-on of this caravan was Abdul Kader, 

 Stanley's Hindoo tailor, who was going to the coast in the en- 

 deavor to return to his native land. According to his account, 

 he had been constantly ill since leaving Mr, Stanley, and was 

 now only just sufficiently recovered to be able to march. He 

 had subsisted during his sickness on the charity of the leading 

 Ai'abs at Unyanyembe ; and as he was a British subject, repre- 

 senting himself to be destitute and unable to work, I gave him 

 four doti of cloth to assist him on his journey. 



The Wagogo informed us that the Wanyamwezi who with- 

 drew from us at Mvumi, and aided and abetted deserters from 

 our camp after having been under our protection, had been de- 

 claring that we had robbed them, and were trying to raise the 

 country against us ; thus proving, on a second occasion, that 

 they had no idea of gratitude. One of their head-men, how- 

 ever, had the impertinence afterward to come to our house at 

 Unyanyembe and ask for a present, on the plea of old acquaint- 

 anceship. 



The Wagogo did not at first entertain a very high opinion of 



