OUR LAST NIGHT IN TAVETA 



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We gave five loads of goods over to the care of one Mkamba, an 

 important native of Taveta, and nine other loads we had to send 

 on in advance to Kimangelia, as we had no porters to carry them 

 with us, and we hoped when we got there we should be able 

 to buy donkeys from the Masai. Another secret precaution we 

 took was to leave ten picked men under Schaongwe in Taveta 

 with instructions to start for Kimangelia a day after the de- 

 parture of the main body, so as to intercept any unsuspecting 

 fugitives who were on their way back. And now, with the happy 

 conviction that everything was in working and fighting order, 

 we retired to rest for the last time in Taveta. 



