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rest, for I intended to send tliem shortly back to Taita 
to fetch the goods there left behind in the missionary’s 
house, when so many of the Wa-rabai deserted; but 
of the remaining twelve, each man received his ap¬ 
pointed task. Abdallah was made supervisor of the 
working men; Mabruki and Athmani were already 
engaged in drying plants and skinning birds under 
my tuition; Faraji and Cephas were building a 
kitchen; Ibrahim was sent with Baher, Farijala, and 
Mwali Mnyani to take spades and clear the site for my 
house; Abdallah bin Saleh was to cut grass and 
attend to the goat and cow ; Mguu collected firewood 
for the cooks; while, most important task of all, to 
Kadu Stanley was given the post of gardener—he had 
to dig up a piece of soil, divide it into neat plots, sow 
it with my English seeds, and hedge it round about 
with a sturdy palisade. The day succeeding my arrival 
I had already put into my kitchen-garden the seeds of 
mustard and cress, radishes, turnips, carrots, onions, 
tomatoes, borage, sage, cucumbers, and melons; and at 
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the end of my first week in Caga, I was already eating 
a salad of my own growing. 
We did not, however, sink at once into this life of 
quiet colonization. During the first few days of my 
stay I was much annoyed by continual visits from 
Mandara’s parasites; wretched bankrupt Swahili 
traders or runaway slaves, who had taken refuge 
with the chief of Mo si from their creditors or owners ; 
and, in the sense that a one-eyed man is king amongst 
the blind, so this rascality of the coast quite lorded it 
over the simple savage, and affected to consider itself 
on a par with the white man. From the first time, 
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however, that I met them on the road to Caga, when 
they were sent to welcome me to Mandara’s country^ 
