THE START—MOMBASA TO TAITA. 
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tive, intensifying, and modifying adverbs, and lent 
great expression to his simple English. Beneath the 
rank of the men already cited, whose wages were 
specially fixed, came a troop of Zanzibaris on their • 
promotion, who received a uniform rate of five dollars 
a month. Among these, however, I had noticed 
already several as good servants or cheerful, con¬ 
scientious men—Ibrahim and Kadu Stanley, especially. 
Ibrahim was nick-named 44 Mcekesaji,” a word which 
you will find translated in Steere’s dictionary 44 a 
merry, laughing body.” Kadu Stanley was remark¬ 
able as having been an old servant of Stanley, to 
whom he had been given by Mtesa, King of Buganda. 
After the Zanzibaris came a herd of Rabai and Mom¬ 
basa men, solely remarkable for their hopelessly bad 
disposition and for the quaint combination of Christian 
and heathen names they assumed. I had only engaged 
them to carry the bulk of my goods to Kilima-njaro, 
and when we had attained that goal I took leave of 
them without regret. 
