200 Wanderings in Eastern Africa. 
cloth; and we found an opportunity to speak a few / 
words for Jesus Christ. Notwithstanding the confi- 
dence of the Gallas that the Masai had left the country, 
we wxre at that very time, as the sequel will prove, 
within a very little of falling into their clutches. 
Towards evening Abajila asked permission to go on , 
to the Wapokomo, on the Maro, to seek for food. He 
would, he said, return early in the morning. Buiya 
came next. He wished to go and see some friends. 
So two of our right hand men left us. We had, 
however, nothing to do, and Aba Rufat still re- 
mained with us. Boiji Hirebaya, it will be remem- 
bered, had left us yesterday, and we had met him to- 
day with his wives, on his way to Kurawa. Dado was 
in the camp, but we had no faith in him ; he carried 
treachery in his very looks. The other Gallas we did 
not know enough of to depend upon them in the 
least. 
After dark Tofiki served us with rice and a portion 
of the duck I had shot in the morning, and having 
had nothing to eat for the whole day we found this 
very acceptable. 
Our hut being a pretty good one we hoped to ob- 
tain a fair night's rest. Mosquitos swarmed and 
plagued us with their horrid hum, it is true, but we 
hoped, by-and-by, to drive them from the hut, and 
to keep them at bay with fire and smoke. We beat 
well the air, blew up the fires, filled the hut with smoke, 
shook down the doorway covering, which was in this 
case a bundle of loose grass hanging from the top ; 
bore with patience our choking throats and smarting 
eyes, complained not of the oven-heat which the at- 
mosphere of our small apartment attained, wiped the 
