OUR GUN IS RETURNED 



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of the land himself had escorted us here, a gun was stolen from 

 us. We took no further notice of the theft than to say we should 

 send to tell Miriali unless it was returned at once, and at nine 

 o'clock in the evening it came back, with the addition of a fat 

 goat, the fine imposed on the thief by the elders of the village. 



To the regret of the natives, who were in camp very 

 early with quantities of l)ananas, beans, and maize, which they 



A BIT OF PRIMEVAL FOREST ON KILIMANJARO. 



hoped to sell, we started again the next morning. The thermo- 

 meter marked + 12° Centigrade, and it was raining too, wdiich 

 made things anything but pleasant. The four slave-girls, who 

 appeared in the same simple toilettes as the day before, shivered 

 with the cold and clung together to try and get warm. We first 

 crossed the brook, beyond which we came to a banana-hedge 

 with a strong door, through which we had to creep. This 



