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greatest wonder. On the following day they marched a short distance, and 

 camped close to the village in which Kwarumba lived. In the afternoon the 

 chief came to see his visitors; and he said that a short time before, strangers, 

 who were not Arabs, and who wore hats and carried umbrellas, had come to 

 the neighbourhood. Our traveller welcomed this as good news, concluding 

 that these strangers were the Portuguese of whom he was in search. 



After leaving Kwarumba's village, the guides again began to give him 

 trouble, but he held on to his own course as well as he could, until he reached 

 Kamwawi. Here, at first, he was well received, but circumstances afterwards 

 proved that this reception was deceptive. He engaged guides to take him 

 down to the chief with whom the strange caravan was stopping, and paid 

 them in advance ; and during the whole afternoon women were in the camp, 

 selling flour, beans, and other provisions. The next morning, however, he 

 found that his pet goat Dinah was missing, and therefore went up to the vil- 

 lage to inquire about her. So little did he suspect that anything was wrong, 

 that he did not even take his pistol or gun with him. He could get no an- 

 swer concerning the goat, and the people began throwing spears and shoot- 

 ing arrows at himself and the men who were with him, so that he had to send 

 and get all his party together in the village, and show a bold front. For 

 some time he would not allow his men to fire in return, as he wanted to try 

 every means to make all straight without resorting to force. However, as 

 he found that the natives grew bolder and bolder, he at last allowed some 

 three or four of his men to return their fire, and a native was shot through 

 the leg. Almost immediately a party of about five hundred men came up 

 from the road by which they had intended to go, and where they had been 

 posted in ambush. 



When the natives saw the traveller and his party begin to defend them- 

 selves they consented to a parley, although they were in such immense force. 

 After a few preliminaries, it was decided that the chief of the village and 

 Cameron should exchange presents, and that one of Cameron's men should 

 make brothers with the chief, after which the caravan should go on its way 

 in peace. But before this could be carried out, another chief, with a large 

 body of men, came up and said to the chief of Kamwawi, " Don't be such a 

 fool ; they are a small party, and we shall be able to kill or make slaves of 

 them all, and divide their beads and cloth amongst us." In consequence of 

 his advice the negotiations were broken off; Cameron therefore set fire to a 

 hut, by way of terrifying them, and threatened that, unless he was allowed 

 to go in peace, he would burn the whole village. On this he was told that 

 he could go unmolested to a village where his guide said the party would be 

 received as friends, and he therefore gave orders to march for it. The na- 

 tives, however, hung about them all the march, which lasted from ten in the 

 morning till nearly six at night ; and whenever the caravan passed through 



