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the Bedawi, the Ishmael, the Orson. These 

 people have rarely any c stay ' in them ; they 

 are charming only as long as things run smooth, 

 and after once showing true colours, they care 

 not to conceal them. Arabs, however, are not 

 the only handsome shoes that badly pinch. How 

 often would fellow-travellers have avoided one 

 another like fire, had they been able to see a 

 trifle below the surface ! Said bin Salim, offended 

 by certain remarks in my Lake Eegions of Cen- 

 tral Africa (passim), and wishing to ' prove his 

 character for honour and honesty,' persuaded 

 Capt. Speke to give him another chance, and 

 began by telling a gross falsehood, which Capt. 

 Speke at once believed. He accompanied the 

 second East African expedition : he played his 

 usual slavish tricks, and he had to be ' dropped,' 

 utterly useless, at Kazeh, with the Arabs. 



I had engaged at Bombav two Portuguese 

 boys, Valentino Bodrigues and Caetano Andrade, 

 who resolved that what Sahib Log could endure, 

 that same could they. Having described them 

 once there is no object in saying further of them, 

 except that they were, despite all deficiencies, a 

 great comfort to us ; and that they proved them- 

 selves, in the long run, better men than the 

 Arab. Taking no interest in ' African explora- 



