Life at Kisigau. 
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which IS only an ungurunga, having been exhausted 
by large bands of Wataita who had camped there 
when on a marauding expedition against Usambara. 
A circuitous route via Matate was advised, and I 
decided to take that. 
An influential Mtaita was brought to me by the 
mkugenzi, who recommended that he should be 
engaged as guide to Matate. I opened my eyes at 
this, as I thought that Sadi himself was our guide ; 
yet now it was discovered that others were necessary ! 
However, finding that this was really so, I sub- 
mitted, and the Mtaita, Muachania by name, was 
employed. This was no sooner done than he said he 
could not go alone, and that he must have a com- 
panion; how could he return by himself through a 
dangerous wilderness? Another man was therefore 
engaged, and each was to have tvv^o doti (pieces of 
eight cubits each) of Americani for their trouble. 
The next day was the Sabbath, and I called the 
men to the early morning prayers. This had not 
been practicable on other days, though evening 
prayers had always been held. 
The Wataita had been warned not to bring 
anything for sale to-day, it being the Mzungu's 
great day," or, as I would have had them to under- 
stand, the Lord's day. They were invited, however, 
to attend the preaching of the Gospel. They did 
not, to my agreeable surprise, trouble us with their 
" soko" (market) ; but neither did they come to my 
*^soko" to buy the truth. A few individuals visited 
us, but it was to look at us, not to hear the word of 
God. One man introduced himself to me, Ngamira 
(camel), the son of Katumu. He said that his father 
