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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
divided us into two parties, one party to go to sleep, 
the other to watch the boma. All night we heard the 
reed arrows Hying past, or pattering on the roofs or the 
boma fence ; all night we heard their yells. Once or 
twice they tried to storm the boma, but we had twenty 
muskets at each end. 
“ Well, the fight lasted all that night, and all the 
next day, and throughout the next night. And we 
could get no water, until Mtagamoyo called out a 
hundred fellows, fifty with muskets and fifty with big 
water-pots, to follow him. Mtagamoyo was a lion ; he 
held up a shield before him, and looking around he just 
ran straight where the crowd was thickest ; and he 
seized two of the dwarfs, and we who followed him 
caught several more, for they would not run away until 
they saw what our design was, and then they left the 
water clear. We filled our pots, and carried the little 
Shaitans (devils) into the boma ; and there we found 
we had caught the king ! 
“ We all argued that we should kill him, but Mtaga- 
moyo would not consent. ‘ Kill the others,’ he said, 
and we cut all their heads off instantly and tossed them 
outside. But the king was not touched. 
“ Then the dwarfs stopped fighting ; they came to us, 
and cried ‘ Sennene ! Sennene ! ’ (‘ Peace, peace ’). We 
made peace with them ; and they said that if we gave 
them their king we might go away unmolested. After 
a long shauri we gave him up. But the war was worse 
than ever. Thousands came towards us, and every 
man was as busy as he could be shooting them. We 
fought all that day and night, and then we saw that 
the powder would not last ; we had only two kegs left. 
“ So our chiefs then mustered us all together, and 
told us all that the only way was to rush out of the 
boma again and catch them and kill them with our 
swords in the way that Mtagamoyo had fought. 
“ After making everything ready we rushed out, and 
every man, bending his head, made straight for them. 
It was a race ! When they saw us coming out with our 
broad long swords, bright as glass, they ran away ; but 
