i6o Wanderings in Eastern Africa. 
in a native vessel, for Malinde, where we had engaged 
to meet the Gallas, and whence we were to start for 
their country. Anchoring in the Kilife harbour, that 
night, we reached MaHnde at three p.m. on the follow- 
ing day. 
Enquiring about the condition of the Galla country, 
we learned that there were still difficulties in the way 
of the immediate prosecution of our journey, some 
misunderstanding having arisen between the Gallas 
and the Wasuahili. These matters having been 
arranged^ we were at liberty to proceed with our 
business. 
But before anything else could be done it was neces- 
sary that we should see some of the leading Gallas, 
that we might arrange with them about our visit to 
their country. To enter the land unbidden and with- 
out permission, it was represented would be certain 
to excite the people's hostility. We should be taken 
for marauders, and on that account might expect to 
be stoutly resisted. This is not surprising, when we 
take into consideration the state of Africa. Feuds pre- 
vail all over the land. Most of the various tribes hving 
separate and distinct from each other, there is no com- 
mercial or friendly intercourse of any kind going on 
between them, and they regard one another with 
extreme jealousy and suspicion. When they visit 
it is, generally speaking, in an unfriendly way — 
literally to plunder and devour each other. And of 
all the peoples of East Africa none had stood so 
much aloof from others, none had maintained their 
exclusiveness so rigidly as the Gallas. Hitherto 
their hand had been against every man and every 
