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city required, without reference to the customs of other 
expeditions. Each, on being engaged, received an advance 
of $30, and a promise of $5 a month afterwards. This 
was double (to Zanzibar) freemen’s pay. They had much 
sickness near the coast, and live died of cholera. While 
under Shereef and Awatlie they cannot be blamed for fol- 
lowing their worthless leaders; these leaders remained at 
Ujiji, and Shereef’s three slaves and his women did the 
same. After two months’ delay there, seven Banian slaves 
came along with the men returning past Barnbarre, as 
mentioned above. They came on the 4th of February, 
1871, having left Zanzibar in October, 1809. I had been 
laid up at Barnbarre, by irritable eating ulcers on both 
feet, which prevented me from setting a foot on the ground 
from August, 1870, to the end of the year. A piece of 
malachite, rubbed down with water on a stone, was the only 
remedy that had any effect; Iliad no medicine; some in 
a box had been unaccountably detained by the Governor of 
Unyanyeinbe since 1868, though I sent for it twice, and de- 
livered calico to prepay the carriers. I have been unchari- 
table enough to suspect that the worthy man wishes to fall 
heir to mv two guns in the same box. Shereef sent by the 
slaves a few coarse • beads, evidently exchanged for my 
beautiful and dear ones, a little calico, and, in great mercy, 
some of my coffee and sugar. The slaves came without 
loads, except my tent, which was so full of holes that it 
looked as if riddled with small shot. I never used it once. 
They had been sixteen months on the way from Zanzibar, 
instead of three, and now, like their head men, refused to 
go any further. They swore so positively that the Consul 
had told them to force me back, and on no account to go 
forward, that I actually looked again at their engagement, 
to be sure my eyes had not deceived me. Fear alone made 
them consent to go, but had I not been aided by Muhamed 
Bogharili, they would have gained their point by sheer 
brazen-faced falsehood. I might then have gone back and 
deposed Shereef and Awatlie, but this would have required 
