578 
TIME AND MONEY LOST. 
off to buy ivory for his owner Karague. Saloom Has been 
kept out of the way ever since; the dregs of the stores 
left by tiiis slave are the only supplies I have received 
since I860. Another stock of goods was despatched from 
Zanzibar in 1868, but the whole was devoured at this place, 
and the letters destroyed, so that I should know nothing 
about them. Another large supply, sent through Ludh* 
and his slaves in 1869-70, came to Ujiji, and except a few 
pounds of worthless beads out of seven hundred pounds 
of fine dear beads, all were sold off for slaves and ivory 
by the persons selected by Lndha Damji. 1 refer to these 
wholesale losses because, though well known to Ludha and 
all the Banians, the statement was made in the House of 
Lords (I suppose on the strength of Ludha’s plausible 
fables) that all my wants had been supplied. 
By coming back in a roundabout route of three hundred 
miles from Ujiji I did find, two days ago, a good quantity 
of supplies, the remains of what had been sent off from 
Zanzibar sixteen month ago. Ludha had been again em- 
ployed, and slaves he selected began by loitering at Bago- 
moyo, opposite Zanzibar, for nearly four months. A war 
here, which is still going on, gave them a good excuse for 
going no further. The head men were thieves, and had I 
not returned and seized what remained, I should again 
have lost all. All the Banian slaves who have been sent 
by Ludha and other Banians, are full of the idea that they 
were not to follow, but force me back. 
I cannot say that I am altogether free from chagrin, in 
view of the worry, thwarting, and battling which the 
Banians and their slaves have inflicted. Common traders 
procure supplies of merchandise from the coast, and send 
loads of ivory down by pagazi or carriers we employ, with- 
out any loss. But the Banians and their agents are not 
their enemies. I have lost more than two years in time, 
have been burdened with eighteen hundred miles of tramp- 
ing, and how much waste of money I cannot say, through 
my affairs having been committed to Banians and slaves, 
