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journey, and decided upon returning before the sixty 
marches were completed, I should not hold him respon- 
sible, but pay him the sum of 5000 dollars without any 
deduction. 
These terms I thought reasonable — all except article 
4 ; but though I endeavoured to modify the article, in 
order to ensure full liberty to continue the journey 
alone if I thought fit, Tippu-Tib said he would not 
undertake the journey alone, from a distance of sixty 
camps to Mwana Mamba, even though 50,000 dollars 
were promised him, because he was assured he would 
never return to enjoy the money. He would much 
prefer continuing with me down to the sea, for a couple 
of thousand dollars more, to returning alone with his 
140 men for 50,000 dollars. He agreed, however, after 
a little remonstrance, to permit the addition of article 7, 
which was to the effect that if he, Tippu-Tib, abandoned 
the journey through faint-heartedness, before the ful 1 
complement of the marches had been completed, he was 
to forfeit the whole sum of 5000 dollars, and the return 
escort. 
“ There is no hurry about it,” said I. “ You may 
change your mind, and I may change mine. We will 
both take twenty-four hours to consider it. To-morrow 
night the agreement shall be drawn up ready for our 
seals, or else you will be told that I am unable to agree 
to your conditions.” 
The truth was that I had opened negotiations without 
having consulted my people ; and as our conversation had 
been private, it remained for me to ascertain the opinion 
of Frank before my next encounter with Tippu-Tib. 
At 6 p.M.,a couple of saucers, filled with palm-oil and 
fixed with cotton-wick, were lit. It was my after-dinner 
hour, the time for pipes and coffee, which Frank was 
always invited to share. 
When he came in, the coffee-pot was boiling, and 
little Mabruki was in waiting to pour out. The tobacco- 
pouch, filled with the choicest production of Africa, that 
of Masansi near Uvira, was ready. Mabruki poured out 
the coffee, and retired, leaving us together. 
