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if they found us resolved not to follow them. The 

 reverend gentleman's sister-in-law, who had accom- 

 panied us from Unyamwezi as cook and concubine to 

 Seedy Bombay, persuaded our managing man that there 

 was no danger of the porters traversing Uzaramo, 

 without pay, escort, or provisions. On the 1st January, 

 1859, however, the gang rose to depart. I sent for the 

 Kirangozi, who declared that though loth to leave us 

 he must head his men : in return for which semi-fidelity 

 I made him name his own reward ; he asked two hand- 

 some cloths, a Gorah or piece of domestics, and one 

 Fundo of coral beads — it was double his pay, but I 

 willingly gave it, and directed Said bin Salim to write 

 an order to that effect upon Mr. Rush Ramji, or any 

 other Hindu who might happen to be at Kaole. But I 

 rejected the suggestion of my companion, who proposed 

 that half the sum agreed upon in Unyanyembe as pay- 

 ment to the porters — nine cloths each — should be given 

 to them. In the first place, this donation would have 

 been equivalent to a final dismissal. Secondly, the Arabs 

 at Kazeh had warned me that it was not their custom 

 to pay in part those who will not complete the journey 

 to the coast ; and I could see no reason for departing 

 from a commercial precedent, evidently necessary to 

 curb the Africans' alacrity in desertion. 



On the day following the departure of the gang I 

 set out to visit the Jetting Spring, and found when 

 returning to the village shortly before noon that my com- 

 panion had sent a man to recal the " Pagazi," who were 

 said to be encamped close to the river, and to propose to 

 them a march upon Mbuamaji. The messenger returned 

 and reported that the Wanyamwezi had already crossed 

 the river. Unwilling that the wretches should lose 

 by their headstrongness, I at once ordered Said bin 



