JUMBE KIMEMETA ARRESTED FOR DEBT 



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anxious to get Jumbe Kimemeta to go on with me, as I knew 

 Count Teleki wanted to get the whole caravan together. Living, 

 as I did, in Kimemeta's house, I had plenty of opportunities of 

 watching him. I knew his preparations were not completed, 

 so I gave little credence to his repeated assurances that he 

 would go on with me ; and the very last day an incident occurred 

 altogether hostile to our wishes, namely, the arrest of Kimemeta 

 for debt. Two men appeared with a warrant procured by 

 some East Indian merchants of Zanzibar, to whom he owed 

 money, and marched him off to prison in Pangani. A few hours 



THE PUNISHMENT OF CHAINING TOGETHER. 



later he was back again, but only to tell me about it all. Of 

 course I protested earnestly against his being locked up again, 

 and declared that His Highness the Sultan, who took so great 

 an interest in our Expedition, could not possibly wish the one 

 man we wanted most of all, and whom we had already paid, to 

 be taken from us. Wali kindly lent a favourable ear to my 

 representations, and Kimemeta was set free. I hoped that he 

 would himself now be anxious to get away from the scene of his 

 arrest ; but not a bit of it, and at last I was obliged to start for 

 Mawia without him. 



