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TRAVELS IN AFEICA. Chap. XXXVII. 
in these countries with hired servants, as he loses all 
control over them. This man, who had been the late 
Mr. Richardson's servant as well as mine, turned 
out like Mukni, Mr. Richardson's interpreter, a great 
slave-dealer, and in 1855, when I was leaving Central 
Africa, collected a numerous gang of slaves in this 
very country, which he had before visited as my 
servant. 
Thursday, ^e at l en gth resumed our journey, but 
July 3rd. on \y to reach Sarawu Berebere, where we 
took up our quarters in the comfortable courtyard 
which I have described on our outward journey. I 
will only record the pleasing fact, that as soon as the 
news spread in the town of my having returned, a 
man whom I had cured of disease during my former 
stay brought me a handsome gazelle-skin as an ac- 
knowledgment. 
The next day we followed our ancient road by 
Badanfjo, and reached Segero ; but on Saturday, 
after having passed Mbutudi without any other delay 
than that of buying with beads a little milk from 
our Fiilbe friends, we took a more easterly path, which 
brought us to Muglebii, a village which exhibited to 
us an interesting picture of the exuberance that reigns 
in these regions at this time of the year. The huts 
were scarcely visible, on account of the rich crops of 
grain which surrounded them on all sides, while 
Palma Christi formed thick clusters of bushes, and a 
few specimens of a remarkable tree which I had never 
observed before, besides isolated bananas, rose above 
