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animality. His liair is of the woolliest : his 

 twinkling little eyes are set close together, and 

 his lips and expansive mouth, especially in rare 

 fits of ill-temper, project as in the cynocephali. 

 He works on principle and he works like a horse, 

 candidly declaring that not love of us but his 

 duty to his belly make him work. With a 

 sprained ankle and a load quite disproportioned 

 to his chetif body, he insists upon carrying two 

 guns, and after a 30 miles' walk he is as fresh as 

 before it began. He attends us everywhere, 

 manages our purchases, carries all our messages, 

 and when not employed by us, he is at every 

 man's beck and call. Speaking a little broken 

 Hindostani, he has for all * jungly niggers ' an in- 

 effable contempt, which he never attempts to 

 conceal. He had enlisted under the Jemadar of 

 Chogwe : we thought, however, so highly of his 

 qualifications, that persuasion and paying his 

 debts induced him after a little coqueting to take 

 leave of soldiering and to follow our fortunes. He 

 began by escorting us to Puga as head gun- 

 carrier : on our march to the Lakes he was the 

 confidential servant and interpreter of my com- 

 panion, he being the only man with whom the 

 latter could converse, and in the Second Expedi- 

 tion of Capts Speke and Grant he was promoted 



