CHAPTER XXXV 



LOVE AND FAREWELL 



IN the early months of 1906, just after the close 

 of the native rebellion in Angoniland, my head boy, 

 Seremani, who had accompanied me throughout the 

 war, advised me to go to that part of the country 

 from which he came, assuring me that plenty of 

 elephants were to be found there. He was of the 

 Mwera tribe, who live near the coast in the vicinity 

 of the Mbemcuru River. 



Leaving Songea Collectorate with a caravan of 

 about sixty people, the majority of whom were 

 armed, because parties of rebels were still roaming 

 about the country, we started for the coast, and after 

 a journey of ten days or so, reached one of my old 

 hunting grounds in the neighbourhood of the 

 Lukumbuli stream. After spending a couple of 

 months there in quest of elephants, we set out for 

 Lindi on the coast, arriving at our destination some 

 three weeks later. At Lindi, I paid off my Angoni 

 carriers, who were anxious to return to their homes, 



