THE SUPPLIES WASTED. 
55 $ 
Dr. Kirk’s attempt to aid me, by a fraudulent conversion 
of the help expedition to the gratification of their own 
greed. Shereef was their ready tool ; and having at Ujiji 
finished the Banian trade, he acted as if he had forgotten 
having ever been employed by any one else. Here the 
drunken half caste Moslem tailor lay intoxicated at times 
for a whole month ; the drink — palm toddy and tombe — all 
bought with my beads, of course. 
Awathe, the other head man, was a spectator of all the 
robbery from the coast onwards, and never opened his 
mouth in remonstrance, or in sending notice to the Consul. 
He had carefully concealed an infirmity when engaged, 
which rendered him quite incapable of performing a single 
duty for me, and he now asserts, like the Johanna de- 
serters, that he ought to be paid all his wages in full. I 
shall narrate below how seven of the Banian slaves bought 
by Shereef and Awathe imitated their leaders and refused 
to go forward, and ultimately, by falsehood and cowardice, 
forced me to return between four and five hundred miles. 
But here I may mention how Shereef finished up his ser- 
vices. He wrote to his friend, the Governor of Unyan- 
yembe, for permission to sell the dfibris of my goods, “ be- 
cause,” said he, “ I sent slaves to Manyema to search for 
the Doctor, but they returned and said he was dead.” He 
also divined on the Koran, and it told the same tale. 
It is scarcely necessary to add that he never sent slaves 
in search of me, and from the people above mentioned, who 
returned from a camp in front of Bambarre, he learned that 
I was alive and well. So, on his own authority and that 
of the Koran, lie sold off the remaining goods at merely 
nominal prices, to his friends, for ivory and slaves for him- 
self, and I lately^ returned to find myself destitute of every- 
thing except a very few articles of barter, which I took the 
precaution to leave here, in ease of extreme need. 
I have stated the case to Dr. Kirk, acting political agent 
and Consul at Zanzibar, and claim, as simple justice, that 
the Banians, who are rich English subjects, should, for 
