XVI.] 



OFF AGAIN. 



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the canoes, to occasion delay, and four days were wasted in re- 

 calking them, although the work might have been completed in 

 a day ; and when the canoes were ready, the Wajiji, who were 

 to bring them back from Kasenge, were not forthcoming. 



Thus^it was the 22d of May before we made a move. Even 

 then I was obliged to put in behind the first point, and send 

 back for several missing men and rifles, and to collect the re- 

 turn crew of Wajiji. 



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BOW-STANDS OF WAGCnHA. 



My servant Mohammed Malim and Bombay were so perpet^ 

 ually fighting that, for the sake of peace, I gave Mohammed 

 charge of the box containing Livingstone's and my own jour- 

 nals, selecting Jumali wadi Nassib for the otiice of valet and fac- 

 totum. And most invaluable he proved. 



The men were so fearfully lazy and shaky, in consequence of 

 their debauch at Ujiji, that four days were occupied in getting 



May, 

 18H. 



