CHAPTER XXXV 
LOVE AND FAREWELL 
In the early months of 1906, just after the close 
of the native rebellion in Angoniland, my head boy, 
Seremani, who had accompanied me throughout the 
war, advised me to go to that part of the country 
from which he came, assuring me that plenty of 
elephants were to be found there. He was of the 
Mwera tribe, who live near the coast in the vicinity 
of the Mbemcuru River. 
Leaving Songea Collectorate with a caravan of 
about sixty people, the majority of whom were 
armed, because parties of rebels were still roaming 
about the country, we started for the coast, and after 
a journey of ten days or so, reached one of my old 
hunting grounds in the neighbourhood of the 
Lukumbuli stream. After spending a couple of 
months there in quest of elephants, we set out for 
Lindi on the coast, arriving at our destination some 
three weeks later. At Lindi, I paid off my Angoni 
carriers, who were anxious to return to their homes, 
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