DISCOVERY OF THE VICTORIA N'YANZA. 5 



the matter -would have been settled at once, for his 

 motives were of a superior order. He had bought, 

 to be his adopted brother, a slave of the Wahha 

 tribe, a tall, athletic, fine-looking man, whose figure 

 was of such excellent proportions that he would have 

 been remarkable in any society ; and it was for this 

 youth, and not himself, he had made so much fuss 

 and used so many devices to obtain the cloths. In- 

 deed, he is a very singular character, not caring one 

 bit about himself, how he dressed, or what he ate ; 

 ever contented, and doing everybody's work in pre- 

 ference to his own, and of such exemplary honesty, 

 he stands a solitary marvel in the land : he would do 

 no wrong to benefit himself to please anybody else 

 there is nothing he would stick at. I now gave him 

 five cloths at his request, to be eventually deducted 

 from his pay. Half of them he gave to a slave called 

 Mabruk, who had been procured by him for leading 

 Captain Burton's donkey, but who had not, in con- 

 sequence of bad behaviour, reverted to my service. 

 This man he also designated " brother," and was very 

 warmly attached to, though Mabruk had no qualifica- 

 tions worthy of attracting any one's affections to him. 

 He was a sulky, dogged, pudding-headed brute, very 

 ugly, but very vain ; he always maintained a respect- 

 able appearance, to cloak his disrespectful manners. 

 The remainder was expended in loin-cloths, some 

 spears and a fez (red Turkish cap), the wearing of 

 which he shared by turns with his purchased brother, 



