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THE KILIMA-NJAR 0 EXPEDITION. 
colleagues were amply fed out of the remains of my 
dinner. Cephas, the junior cook, often called Cephassi 
by the soft-tongued Zanzibaris, was originally a freed 
Nyassa slave. Educated at the Nassick Mission, 
Fig. 18.—Virapan, my Tamil Servant. 
near Bombay, he had been taught to cook in a way 
that generally procured him good situations. He had 
visited England and there acquired certain useful 
expletives which served him as augmentative, diminu- 
