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thing, he told me afterwards, that he felt obliged to deny to his head wife, 
'‘the lady Siena.’ 1 
At last my detention was becoming a little tedious, and I was very anxious 
about the missing steamer. To soothe my anxiety, Jumbe sent for his 
necromancer, who was to ascertain, by means of “ rami ” (sand), what the 
NORTH NYASA ARABS : BWANA ’OMARI IN THE FOREGROUND 
immediate future had in store for me as regards steamer communication. 
The necromancer informed us that the small steamer (the Haiti) had run 
aground on the rocks, but the “Bishop’s steamer” 2 would shortly call for me. 
This information turned out to be perfectly correct, and no doubt the 
necromancer had other sources of knowledge than those which were occult. 
1 Or the “bibi mkubwa,” (“great lady”) as she was commonly called. 
2 The Charles Jansou used to be always called by the Arabs, “ Istima-al-Askaf,” the “Bishop’s 
steamer.” 
