I860.] SLOW RECOVERY AT UJUL 7 



WatUta war, so I must wait till the Governor there gets 

 an opportunity to send them. The Musa sent with the 

 buffaloes is a genuine specimen of the ill-conditioned, 

 English-hating Arab. I was accosted on arriving by, " You 

 must give me five dollars a month for all my time ;" this 

 though he had brought nothing — the buffaloes all died — 

 and did nothing but receive stolen goods. I tried to make 

 use of him to go a mile every second day for milk, but he 

 shammed sickness so often on that day I had to get another 

 to go ; then he made a regular practice of coming into my 

 house, watching what my two attendants were doing, and 

 going about the village with distorted statements against 

 them. 



I clothed him, but he tried to make bad blood between 

 the respectable Arab who supplied me with milk and my- 

 self, telling him that I abused him, and then he would come 

 back, saying that he abused me ! I can account for his 

 conduct only by attributing it to that which we call ill- 

 conditioned : I had to expel him from the house. 



I repaired a house to keep out the rain, and on the 23rd 

 moved into it. I gave our Kasanga host a cloth and 

 blanket ; he is ill of pneumonia of both lungs. 



28th March. — Flannel to the skin and tea very beneficial 

 in the cure of my disease ; my cough has ceased, and I walk 

 half a mile. I am writing letters for home. 



8th April, 1869. — Visited Moene Mokaia, who sent me two 

 fowls and rice ; gave him two cloths. He added a sheep. 



13th April, — Employed Suleyman to write notes to Go- 

 vernor of Unyembe, Syde bin Salem Burashid, to make 

 inquiries about the theft of my goods, as I meant to apply 

 to Syed Majid, and Avished to speak truly about his man 

 Musa bin Salum, the chief depredator. 



Wrote also to Thani for boat and crew to go down 

 Tanganyika. 



Syde bin Habib refused to allow his men to carry my 



