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and if I do not succeed in the end, you shall be my 

 guest until I can amass sufficient property to reim- 

 burse your losses." Mansur has all this time been 

 living, like the slaves of the country, on jowari 

 porridge, which is made by grinding the seed into 

 flour and boiling it in water until it forms a good 

 thick paste, when master and man sit round the 

 earthen pot it is boiled in, pick out lumps, and 

 suck it off their fingers. It was a delicious sight 

 yesterday, on coming through Muanza, to see the 

 great deference paid to Sich Belooch, Shadad, mis- 

 taken for the great Arab merchant (or Mundewa), 

 my humble self, in consequence of his riding the 

 donkey, and to perceive the stoical manner in which 

 he treated their attentions ; but, more fortunate than 

 I usually have been, he escaped the rude peeping 

 and peering of the crowd, for he did not, like his 

 employer, wear " double eyes." During the last five 

 or six marches, the word Marabu, for Arab, instead 

 of Mzungu, European, has usually been applied to 

 me; and no one, I am sure, would have discovered 

 the difference, were it not that the tiresome pagazis, 

 to increase their own dignity and importance gener- 

 ally, gave the clue by singing the song of "the 

 White Man." The Arabs at Unyanyembe had 

 advised my donning their habit for the trip, in 

 order to attract less attention : a vain precaution, 

 which I believe they suggested more to gratify their 

 own vanity in seeing an Englishman lower himself 



