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refusing to go to Bernba, they will force me to remain with 

 them, and then go to Ujiji : one of them has infused the 

 idea into their minds that I will not pay them, and exclaims 

 " Look at the sepoys ! " — not knowing that they are paid 

 by the Indian Government ; and as for the Johanna men, 

 they were prepaid 29?. 4s. in cash, besides clothing. I sent 

 Amoda's bundle back to Mohamad : my messenger got to 

 Kabwabwata before Amoda did, and he presented himself 

 to my Arab friend, who, of course, scolded him : he replied 

 that he was tired of carrying, and no other fault had he ; I 

 may add that I found out that Amoda wished to come south 

 to me with one of Mohamad Bogharib's men, but " Mpamari " 

 told him not to return. Now that I was fairly started, I 

 told my messenger to say to Mohamad that I would on no 

 account go to Ujiji, till I had done all in my power to 

 xeach the Lake I sought: I would even prefer waiting at 

 Luao or Moero, till people came to me from Ujiji to sup- 

 plant the runaways. I did not blame them very severely 

 in my own mind for absconding : they were tired of tramp- 

 ing, and so verily am I, but Mohamad, in encouraging 

 them to escape to him, and talking with a double tongue, 

 cannot be exonerated from blame. Little else can be ex- 

 pected from him, he has lived some thirty-five years in 

 the country, twenty-five being at Casembe's, and there he 

 had often to live by his wits. Consciousness of my own 

 defects makes me lenient. 



16th April. — Ndowa gives Mita or Mpamankanana as 

 the names of the excavations in Muabo's hills, he says 

 that they are sufficient to conceal all the people of this 

 district in case of war : I conjecture that this implies room 

 for ten thousand people : provisions are stored in them, and 

 a perennial rivulet runs along a whole street of them. On 

 one occasion, when the main entrance was besieged by an 

 enemy, someone who knew all the intricacies of the excava- 

 tions led a party out by a secret passage, and they, coming 



