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therefore dear; but added to those influences here, 

 the sultans, to increase their own importance whilst 

 having me their guest, invariably gave out that I was 

 no peddling Arab or Sowahili, as they say, " Bana 

 "Warungwana," for Zanzibar merchant ; but an in- 

 dependent Mundewa, or Sultan of the Wazungu 

 (white or wise men), and the people took the hint 

 to make me pay or starve. Then again, not having 

 the Shaykh with me, I had to pay for and settle 

 everything myself, and from having no variety of 

 beads in this exclusively bead country, there was 

 great inconvenience. 



Kurua now joined us, and reported the abandoned 

 donkey dead. A cool shower of rain fell, to the satis- 

 faction of every thirsty soul. It is delightful to ob- 

 serve the freshness which even one partial shower 

 imparts to all animated nature after a long-continued 

 drought. 



During the four succeeding days we have marched 

 fifty-eight miles, and are now at our old village in 

 Ulekampuri. As we have now traversed all the 

 ground, I must try to give a short description, 

 with a few reflections on the general character of all 

 Ave have seen or heard, before concluding this diary. 

 To give a faithful idea of a country, it is better that 

 the object selected for comparison should incline to 

 the large and grander scale than to the reverse, other- 

 wise the reader is apt to form too low an idea of it. 

 And yet, though this is leaning to the smaller, I can 



