We go to Ganda. 
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though the rivers flow so near to each other. The 
Tana at Charra is at least double the width of the 
Ozi at the place where we entered the latter, while the 
volume of water in the former must be several times 
larger than that of the latter. The Ozi after leaving 
the Tana looked a very insignificant stream. The 
current of the Tana runs at a rate of three or four 
miles an hour, while that of the Ozi moved at a very 
sluggish pace ; the former, overflowing, had inundated 
the country for miles around, while the latter lay 
sleeping several feet below its banks, and receiving 
by the above creek some of the surplus waters of its 
neighbours. The waters of this were red, those of 
the other black; a difference which the Gallas de- 
note by calling the one Galana Dima (red river), 
the other Galana Guratsha (black river). 
We found Kau in much the same state as it was on 
our previous visit, except that it was more unsettled. 
Simba, having broken the treaty of peace, had been 
giving the place some trouble, and Sayid Sud had 
gone to attack the lion in his den, having encamped 
it was said at Balawa, before Uitu, with an army 1,000 
strong. But Sayid Sud had undertaken a task 
altogether beyond his powers, for, as we afterwards 
heard, he was obliged to return to Lamu without 
having inconvenienced the enemy in the least. 
Craft was now and again resorted to to secure this 
rebel, but Simba was equally proof against that mode 
of attack. He had ever before him what befel his 
friend, Muhammad bin Taka, of Sihu. This man was 
decoyed by fair promises by the Sultan to Zanzibar, 
when, after having been flattered and feasted, he was 
bound and imprisoned, and was never heard of again. 
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