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all windfalls, such as a share of the sportsman's game- 

 bag, in the shape of elephants' tusks or flesh, or the 

 skins of any wild animals ; otherwise they li ve by the 

 sweat of the brow of their slaves, in tilling their 

 ground, tending their cattle, or trafficking for them 

 in slaves and ivory. It seems destined that I should 

 never reach the goal of my ambition. To-day the 

 jemadar finds himself too unwell to march, and two 

 other Belooches say the same. This is an effectual 

 obstacle ; for the guard declares itself too weak to 

 divide, and the sultan blows on the fire of my morti- 

 fication by saying that these are troubled times, and 

 advises our keeping all together. He says that his 

 differences have been going on these five years with 

 his eldest brother, and now he wishes to bring them 

 to a crisis, which he proposes doing after my return, 

 when he will obtain powder from me, and will have 

 the preponderating influence of Arab opinion brought 

 to bear in his favour by the aid of their guns an 

 impressive dodge which Africa has of proving right 

 in its own way. 



On the 22d, after much groaning and grumbling, I 

 got the sick men on their legs by 7 A.M., and we 

 marched eight miles to Senagongo, the boma 1 (palisade) 

 of Sultan Kanoni, Kurua's second brother. These two 

 younger brothers side together against the eldest. 

 They are all by different mothers, and think the 



1 Boma a palisade. A village or collection of huts so forti- 

 fied is called so also. 



