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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



numbered and registered ; the Pagazi were forbidden, 

 under pain of punishment, to open or to change them 

 without permission ; and Said bin Salim received, like 

 the Baloch, a certain monthly amount of beads, besides 

 rations of rice for the consumption of his children. 

 This arrangement was persevered in till we separated 

 upon the seaboard : it acted well, saving outfit, time, 

 and a host of annoyances ; moreover, it gave us com- 

 mand, as the African man, like the lower animals, 

 respects only, if he respects anything, the hand that 

 cfives, that feeds him. It was wonderful to see how the 

 " bone of contention," cloth, having been removed, the 

 fierceness of those who were formerly foes melted and 

 merged into friendship and fraternisation. The triad 

 of bitter haters, Said bin Salim, the monocular Jemadar, 

 and Muinyi Kidogo, now marched and sat and ate 

 together as if never weary of such society; they praised 

 one another openly and without reserve, and if an evil 

 tale ever reached my ear its subject was the innocent 

 Bombay — its object was to ruin him in my estimation. 



Acutely remembering the trouble caused by the feuds 

 between Said bin Salim and Kidogo upon the subject of 

 work, I directed the former to take sole charge of the 

 porters, to issue their rations, and to superintend their 

 loads. The better to assist him, two disorderly sons of 

 Kamji were summarily flogged, and several others 

 who refused to carry our smaller valuables were re- 

 duced to order by the usual process of stopping rations. 

 " Shehe," though chosen as Kirangozi or guide from 

 motives of jealousy by the porters, was turned out of 

 office ; he persisted in demanding cloth for feeing an 

 Unyamwezi medicine-man, in order to provide him, a 

 Moslem ! with charms against the evil eye, a superstition 

 unknown to this part of Eastern Africa, The Pagazi, 



