ADVENTURES OF SCHAONGWE 



Our donkeys and cattle, which, were suffering dreadfully 

 from the immense numbers of flies of different kinds, we sent 

 with an escort of eight men to Miriali. We also sent a certain 

 quantity of thick copper wire, begging him to have it made into/ 

 the little chains that are so much sought after in Masai] and. 



Another party of men, sent off the day after our arrival, 

 were charged to go to the nomad Masai on the Dariama to 

 buy seventy dressed half-tanned oxhides to make saddles for 

 our pack-animals ; whilst a third contingent, under one Juma 

 Mussa Naddim Balosi, was sent to Useri to buy goats. This 

 Juma we had recently hired from James Martin, who was still 

 in Taveta, for thirteen dollars a month. He was a native of 

 Tanga, in the prime of life, had made many journeys in Masai- 

 land, spoke the language well, and was altogether very experi- 

 enced. He told us that Useri, in the Jagga district, would be 

 the best place for buying goats, but he only brought back four, 

 the fact being that they are very scarce in the whole of the 

 Kilimanj aro neighbourhood. 



On the morning of May 21 Schaongwe came back with his 

 caravan. He had marched with his men to Tarawanda, at the 

 foot of the Usambara range, half-way between Masinde and 

 Mautui, where he found one hundred loads, brought there from 

 Mawia by Jumbe Kimemeta. On his way there Schaongwe had 

 lost two of his Askari, who had gone off with the stores of pro- 

 visions he had brought for his men, and when he got to Tara- 

 wanda twenty porters and the second guide, Nassid wadi Ferhan, 

 declared quite openly that they meant to go to Pangani, an 

 intention they did not fail to carry out. Moreover, Schaongwe 

 found that nearly every load had been opened and some of the 

 contents stolen, Sultan Sembodja conniving at the theft. After 

 waiting a long time for the return of the men from Pangani, 

 Schaongwe started again, but he had to leave twenty-three loads 

 behind him for want of porters. He allowed himself no time 



