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the chief had behaved handsomely as I thought, I went this 

 morning and gave him one of our best cloths; but when 

 we were about to kill the cow, a man interfered and pointed 

 out a smaller one. I asked if this was by the orders of the 

 chief. The chief said that the man had lied, but I declined 

 to take any cow at all if he did not give it willingly. 



The slavers, the headman of whom was Magaru Mafupi, 

 came and said that they were going off on the 2nd ; {2nd 

 February) but by payment I got them to remain a day, 

 and was all day employed in writing despatches. 



'3rd February. — Magaru Mafupi left this morning with 

 a packet of letters, for which he is to get Es. 10 at 

 Zanzibar.* They came by a much shorter route than we 

 followed, in fact, nearly due west or south-west ; but not a 

 soul would tell us of this way of coming into the country 

 when we were at Zanzibar. Bagamoio is only six hours 

 north of Kurdary Harbour. It is possible that the people 

 of Zanzibar did not know of it themselves, as this is the 

 first time they have come so far. The route is full of vil- 

 lages and people who have plenty of goats, and very cheap. 

 They number fifteen stations, or sultans, as they call the 

 chiefs, and will be at Bagamoio in two months : — 1. Chasa ;. 



2. Lombe ; 3. Uchere ; 4. Nyamiro ; 5. Zonda ; 6. Zambi ; 

 7. Lioti ; 8. Merere'; 9. Kirangabana; 10. Nkongozi; 11. 

 Sombogo ; 12. Sure ; 13. Lomolasenga ; 14. Kapass ; 15.. 

 Ckanze\ They are then in the country adjacent to Baga- 

 moio. Some of these places are two or three days apart 

 from each other. 



They came to three large rivers : 1. "VW-nibo ; 2. Luaha ; 



3. Luvo; but I had not time to make further inquiries. 

 They had one of Speke's companions to Tanganyika with 

 them, named Janje, or Janja, who could imitate a trumpet 

 by blowing into the palm of his hand. I ordered another 



These letters reached England safely. 



