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have appeared an astounding generosity to natives accustomed 

 to consider captives as slaves. 



Shortly afterwards the hostile chief arrived in person at 

 Mumia's and offered, in sign of submission, to settle with 

 his tribe in the immediate neighbourhood of the Government 

 station. This of course could not be granted, and he returned 

 to his own home, but with all the liberated captives, women 



NATIVE BRIDGE OVER THE SIO RIVER IN KAVIRONDO. 



and children. Some months later the civil officer in charge of 

 the district made an inspection tour in Kitosh. It was a royal 

 tour, for the conquered natives saw in him the autocrat wielding 

 supreme authority in the country. It will take a long while 

 before they come to know that there is a higher authoritv in the 

 Protectorate, viz., the Commissioner, who, in his turn, is but 

 the servant of the sovereign authority in the distant land which 

 is the home of the white man. 



Pursuit becomes extremely difficult, if the enemy crosses 

 rivers and destroys the native bridges. The difference in depth 

 of some rivers in the dry season and in a state of fiood, owing to 



