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him to refund the whole. It was the same class that, by 
means of a few Somauli, ultimately compassed the Baron’s 
destruction. In Burton’s expedition to Ujiji and Yirra, 
he was obliged to dismiss all his followers of this class at 
TTjiji, for dishonesty. Most of Speke’s followers deserted 
>n the first appearance of danger, and Musa and com- 
panions fled on hearing a false report from a half casts 
Moslem like themselves, that he had been plundered by 
Mazitu, at a spot which, from having accompanied mo 
thither and beyond it, they knew to be 150 miles, or say 
twenty days distant, and I promised to go due west, and 
not turn northward until far past the beat of the Mazitu. 
But in former journeys we came through Portuguese, who 
would promptly have seized deserters ; while here, at the 
lower end of Nyassa, we were on the Kilwa slave route, 
where all their countrymen would town on and flatter them 
for baffling the Nazarines, as they call us Christians. 
As soon as I turned my face west they all ran away, and 
they had no other complaint but “the Mazitu.” All my 
difficulties in this journey have arisen from having low- 
class Moslems, or those who have been so before they were 
captured. Even of the better class, few can be trusted. 
The Sultan places all his income and pecuniary affairs in 
the hands of Banians, from India. When the gentlemen 
of Zanzibar aro asked why their Sultan entrusts his money 
to aliens alone, they readily answer it is owing to their own 
prevailing faithlessness. Some, indeed, assert, with a 
laugh, that if their sovereign allowed any of them to farm 
his revenue, he would receive nothing but a crop of lies. 
In their case religion and morality are completely dis- 
jointed. It is, therefore, not surprising that, in all their 
long intercouse with the tribes on the mainland, not one 
attempt has been made to propagate the Mohammedan 
faith. I am very far from being unwilling to acknowledge 
and even admire the zeal of other religionists than the 
Christian; but repeated inquiries among all classes hove 
only left the conclusion that they have propagated syphilis 
