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PISU. 



tie, and invited us to carouse with ' wuh safed/ 

 that white one — probably gin. Our refusal to 

 taste it did us good service with the Sherif 

 Mohammed, a Hazramaut man, educated in 

 Sind, and chief of the 25 to 30 Indians who com- 

 pose the little colony. We were visited by the 

 Jemadar, Musa Khan, who commands a score 

 of Baloch mercenaries, readily distinguished by 

 close-fitting lips and oval heads in this land 

 of muzzles and cocoa-nut skulls. They greatly 

 admired our weapons, specially my basket-hilted 

 Andrea Perrara, the gift of an old friend, Archi- 

 bald McLaren, and one young fellow volunteered 

 to accompany us up country. The AVasawahili 

 were the least civil ; they heard that certain 

 Miizungu Kafirs liad visited their town, and 

 came to stare accordingly. 



The good Pisu sent for our casks, and Imd 

 them filled from the Mto-ni, Ijehind the fort. 

 This streamlet, some 15 feet broad aiul armpit 

 deep, supplies water far superior to tliat of the 

 wells and the brackish produce of the sands near 

 the anchorage ground. Finally, he accompanied 

 us, with the chief notables, to the landing-place, 

 and sent us off in his own boat, which he had 

 loaded with rice and fruits. 



Pemba is an irregular coralline bank, com- 



