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differences, and behaved on this and a subsequent occa- 

 sion more like an Arab Shaykh, than an African 

 headman. 



On the 22nd December my companion rejoined me, 

 bringing four loads of cloth, three of beads, and seven 

 of brass wire : they formed part of the burden of the 

 twenty-two porters who were to join the Expedition ten 

 days after its departure from the coast. The Hindus, 

 Ladha Damha and Mr. Rush Ramji, after the decease of 

 Lieut-Colonel Hamerton, had behaved with culpable 

 neglect. The cloth was of the worst and flimsiest de- 

 scription ; the beads were the cheap white and the use- 

 less black — the latter I was obliged to throw away; and 

 as they sent up the supply without other guard than two 

 armed slaves, " Mshindo " and " Kirikhota," the conse- 

 quence was that the pair had plundered ad libitum. No 

 letters had been forwarded, and no attention had been 

 paid to my repeated requests for drugs and other stores. 

 My companion's new gang, levied at Kazeh, affected the 

 greatest impatience. They refused to halt for a day, — 

 even Christmas day. They proposed double marches, and 

 they resolved to proceed by the straight road to Msene. 

 It was deemed best to humour them. They arrived, 

 however, at their destination only one day before my 

 party, who travelled leisurely, and who followed the 

 longer and the more cultivated route. 



We left Irora on the 23rd December, and marched from 

 sunrise till noon to the district of Eastern Wilyankuru. 

 There we again separated. On the next day I passed 

 alone through the settlement called Muinyi Chandi, 

 where certain Arabs from Oman had built large Tembe, 

 to serve as barracoons and warehouses. This district 

 supplies the adjoining countries with turmeric, of which 

 very little grows in Unyanyembe. After this march dis- 



