THE PROPRIETY OF REWARDING BAD CONDUCT. 85 



shish. Nothing of the kind had been contemplated or 

 prepared for at Zanzibar, but before leaving Unya- 

 nyembe, I had found it necessary to offer an induce- 

 ment, and now the promise was to be fulfilled. More- 

 over, most of the party had behaved badly, and in 

 these exceptional lands, bad behaviour always expects 

 a reward. In the first place, says the Oriental, no man 

 misconducts himself unless he has power to offend you 

 and you are powerless to punish him. Secondly, by 

 " petting " the offender, he may be bribed to conduct 

 himself decently. On the other hand, the Eastern 

 declares, by rewarding, praising, or promoting a man 

 who has already satisfied you, you do him no good, and 

 you may do him great harm. The boy Faraj, who 

 had shamelessly deserted his master, Said bin Salim, 

 was afterwards found at Unyanyembe, in Snay bin 

 Amir's house, handsomely dressed and treated like a 

 guest ; and his patron, forgetting all his stern resolves 

 of condign punishment, met him with a peculiar kind- 

 ness. I gave to the Baloch forty-five cloths, and to 

 each slave, male and female, a pair. The gratification, 

 however, proved somewhat like that man's liberality 

 who, according to the old satirist, presented fine apparel 

 to those whom he wished to ruin. Our people reck- 

 lessly spent all their Bakhshish in buying slaves, who 

 generally deserted after a week, leaving the unhappy ex- 

 proprietor tantalised by all the torments of ungratified 

 acquisitiveness. 



At first the cold damp climate of the Lake Regions 

 did not agree with us ; perhaps, too, the fish diet was 

 over-rich and fat, and the abundance of vegetables led 

 to little excesses. All energy seemed to have abandoned 

 us. I lay for a fortnight upon the earth, too blind to 

 read or write, except with long intervals, too weak to 



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