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were animated by curiosity only. Without halting at all, and 

 in perfect silence on both sides, not so much as a cry being 

 raised by the natives, we quickly passed close to the village, 

 and at the same moment we heard, to our delight, two shots 

 fired, as a greeting to us, from Korogwe, the German station, 

 occupying a low height hard by. Then came a messenger to 

 tell us that Count Teleki was just then at the station ; so my 

 men went on to the camp by the river, whilst I hastened to 

 Korogwe, and very soon I had the pleasure of meeting Count 

 Teleki once more, in the presence of Messrs. Braun, Joost, 

 and Bauer, then occupying the station. 



Count Teleki had heard all the latest news from Herr 

 Braun, the superintendent of the station, and was enjoying a 

 happy discussion as to the prospects of sport, &c, when the 

 quarrel with the natives put an end to his lightheartedness. 



The beginning of the difficulty was the carrying off by a 

 Paris belonging to our camp of a black Helen from the village, 

 the result of which was that the natives refused to trade with 

 our people, picked quarrels about everything, and finally came 

 to blows. Our old Manwa Sera, who acted the part of Paris 

 and Achilles alike in the imbroglio, was not content with clubs 

 and fists, but rushed into the camp, and, in the absence of Count 

 Teleki, called on the people to rise against the Washenzi, as the 

 natives of the districts behind Pangani are called, 1 and led the 

 men down then and there to the bridge leading to the village, 

 where the natives, fully armed and prepared, awaited their 

 onslaught. Manwa gave the order to fire, and hundreds of 

 guns were let off on both sides. Count Teleki, who was just 

 then leaving the station for the camp, of course heard the 

 uproar, but thought at first that it merely indicated the 



1 ' Washenzi ' is also used as a term of contempt for the natives of what the 

 Germans call the Hinterland — that is to say, all the districts of Africa not yet 

 appropriated by Europeans. — Trans. 



