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allowed him to escape ; then browbeat Chapi's man about 

 him (and he says, three others) ; and caught ten in lieu of 

 him, of which Mohamad restored six : this was the origin 

 of the war. Now that we are in the middle of it, I 

 must do as Mohamad does in going off either by day or 

 by night. It is unreasonable to ask my advice now, 

 but it is felt that they have very unjustifiably placed 

 me in a false position, and they fear that Syed Majid 

 will impute blame to them, meanwhile Syde bin Habib 

 sent a private message to me to come with his men to 

 him, and leave this party. 



I perceive that the plan now is to try and clear our way 

 of Chapi, and then march, but I am so thoroughly dis- 

 gusted with this slave-war, that I think of running the risk 

 of attack by the country people, and go off to-morrow with- 

 out Mohamad Bogharib, though I like him much more 

 than I do Mpamari or Syde bin Habib. It is too glaring 

 hypocrisy to go to the Koran for guidance while the stolen 

 women, girls, and fish, are in Bin Juma's hands. 



8th and 9th December. — I had to wait for the Ban- 

 yamwezi preparing food : Mohamad has no authority over 

 them, or indeed over anyone else. Two Babemba men 

 came in and said that they had given up fighting, and 

 begged for their wives, who had been captured by Syde's 

 people on their way here : this reasonable request was 

 refused at first, but better counsels prevailed, and they 

 were willing to give something to appease the anger of the 

 enemy, and sent back six captives, two of whom were the 

 wives prayed for. 



[At last he makes a start on the 11th of December with 

 the Arabs, who are bound eastwards for Ujiji. It is a 

 motley group, composed of Mohamad and his friends, a 

 gang of Unyamwezi hangers-on, and strings of wretched 

 slaves yoked together in their heavy slave-sticks. Some 



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