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demanded fifteen cloths a piece, besides one porter each 

 to carry their matchlocks and pervanents. The number 

 of the porters was reduced, the cloth was procured from 

 an Arab merchant, Sayf bin Said el Wardi, at an expense 

 of one hundred dollars, made payable by draught upon 

 Ladha Damha of Zanzibar : at the same time, the Baloch 

 were warned that they must option between this and the 

 reward conditionally promised to them after return.* 

 Their bad example was followed by the old and faithful 

 servant " Bombay," who required instant dismissal unless 

 he also received cloth before the journey: he was 

 too useful to my companion as interpreter and steward 

 to be lightly parted with. But the granting his claim 

 led to a similar strike and menace on the part of the 

 bull-headed slave Mabruki, who, being merely a " head- 

 ache " to me, at once " got the sack " till he promised, 

 if pardoned, to shake off his fear, and not to be 

 naughty in future. By dint of severe exertion my 

 companion was enabled to leave Kazeh on the 10th 

 July. 



I proceed to recount the most important portion 

 of the information — for ampler details the reader is 

 referred to the Journal of the Royal Geographical 

 Society — collected during my halt at Kazeh from vari- 

 ous sources, Arab and African, especially from Snay bin 

 Amir, concerning — 



* So my report printed in the Proceedings Roy. Geog. Soc. loco cit. " Our 

 asses, thirty in number, all died, our porters ran away, our goods were left 

 behind; our black escort became so unmanageable as to require dismissal ; the 

 weakness of our party invited attacks, and our wretched Baloch deserted us 

 in the jungle, and throughout have occasioned an infinity of trouble." 



