CHAPTER VIII. 
BARARETTA. 
N the 1st of January, 1867, we made our entry 
into the Galla country. We were to have left 
Mambrui early that morning, but were obliged to wait 
for the return of Hemmet bin Sayid from MaUnde. 
He had promised us the services of his servant 
Abajila, an Islamized Galla, as interpreter. But at 
the last moment there was some hanging back on 
the part of this man. He did not see how he could 
conveniently leave Mambrui; he had a wife and plan- 
tation to look after ; indeed he did not think he could 
go with us. 
We knew that his object was to obtain larger pay 
than we had offered him. His master returned, this 
matter was arranged, and we commenced our march. 
Following the beach for about an hour, we turned off 
into a path leading through a dense wood. Buiya 
told us that the Wata (Kis. Wasania) have some vil- 
lages in this wood. The truth is, these people occupy 
a strip of country all along the coast, as far as from a 
little below Malinde, in the south, to the river Jub, or 
Juba, in the north. North of the Ozi they are called 
Wadahalo. The Wasuahili occupy the immediate 
