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tions of some of the men we had hired on our first visit to 

 Pangani, but who had not been ready to start when we did. 

 Some were really ill, others had always meant to cheat us. But 

 with the latter I made short work, and sent them, with the 

 exception of those who were able to pay back the whole of the 

 advance-money received, to Zanzibar to be punished. 



On February 21 the guide, Ali Schaongwe, accompanied by 



FLOGGING THE FUGITIVES AT PANGANI. 



twenty men, arrived, to our great astonishment, like the 

 messengers of Job, with the news that a day or two before a 

 porter had run away with one of the most valuable of the loads, 

 that containing all our scientific books and maps. According 

 to Ali's story, Count Teleki had halted in Kwa Fungo on 

 February 8, in order to send back to Leva for the goods left 

 there. The next day he had pressed on to Mruasi, a little 

 Washenzi village on the Niusi stream, some natives helping as 



