XIV.] ROBBERY OF MY STORES. 173 



CHAPTEK XIY. 



Recovery of Livingstone's Papers.— Robbery of my Stores.— Punishment of a Thief. 

 —Difficulty in sending the Journals to the East Coast.— The Traders of Kawele.— 

 The Native Dress and Ornaments.— Their Markets.— Warundi Body-coloring.— 

 Products of the District.— Their Currency.— Hiring Boats.— Curious Mode of Pay- 

 ment.— Fitting-out.— I am thought " Unlucky."— My Guides desert Me.— "Xegro 

 Melodists."— Sailing away on the Tanganyika.— Devils' DweUiugs.- Propitiating 

 the Spirits. — Slave-hunters. 



I FOUND it impossible to remain in the house which the Arabs February, 

 had lent me at Kawele. It was very wretched, and the only 1874. 

 place where I could stand my bed was under a veranda open to 

 the market-place and exposed to the gaze of the whole popula- 

 tion. I therefore moved into another, which I rented for two 

 doti a month. This house, though not so large as the one I oc- 

 cupied at Unyanyembe, was much more comfortable, and a ta- 

 ble placed under the veranda enabled one to work at ease. 



My first inquiries were for Dr. Livingstone's papers, and I was 

 greatly rejoiced to find them safe in the charge of Mohammed 

 ibn Salib, who— although holding no authority from Syd Bur- 

 ghash— was looked upon by the traders here as their practical 

 head, to whom they always referred in any matter of dispute. 



I now took the opportunity of overhauling my loads to dis- 

 cover what I 'had lost by theft, ^d found that no fewer than 

 thirty-two frasilah of beads, weighing thirty-five pounds each, 

 and equal to sixteen loads, had been stolen. Only one load re- 

 mained intact, and that had been carried the whole way by a 

 pagazi named Suliman, wlio was a very good, honest fellow. 



Owing to the frequent desertions and my many illnesses, I 

 had been unable to keep the men to the same loads throughout 

 the journey, and therefore could not detect the thieves unless I 

 actually found the stolen property in their possession. But I 

 had little or no doubt that there were barely half a dozen men 

 in the caravan who had not robbed me at one time or another. 



