24 PREPARATIONS IN ZANZIBAR AND ON THE COAST 



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officer of the Sultan was a 

 feeble personage, with little 

 influence. We hoped for 

 better results by advertising 

 that a dollar would be given 

 as an extra present to every 

 man who enlisted under us. 

 In spite of this, however, 

 and although we hired some 

 slaves who had never set 

 foot in Masailand, we got 

 on much more slowly than 

 we could have wished. And 

 to all our trouble was added 

 anxiety about the fate of the 

 dhow, which left Zanzibar 

 two days before we did and 

 had not yet arrived ; but 

 from this we were relieved 

 at last, on the afternoon of 

 January 25, by the sound of 

 the firing of guns from the 

 direction of the river. 



We meant to tranship 

 men and goods to boats, and 

 send them up-stream at once 

 to Mania, the first halting- 

 place for caravans, so as to 

 keep our forces together, for 

 we could not hope to do so 

 in a scattered village like 

 Pangani, where there were 

 so many good nooks to hide 



