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THE KILIMA-NJABO EXPEDITION 
CHAPTER XY. 
LAKE JIPE AND THE KOAD TO GONJA. 
The time was now approaching when I should be 
obliged to leave Taveita and return to the coast. 
My six months on Kilima-njaro were coming to an 
end, and the funds for the expedition also. Unless 
more money were granted me I should have to dis¬ 
charge my porters, pay their wages, wind up my 
affairs, and return to England, for living in Central 
Africa is no more possible without money or money’s 
worth than it is elsewhere. Nevertheless, I could 
not bear to think I was quitting the country, and felt 
so hopeful and convinced that help in some shape or 
form would await me in Zanzibar, and that in a few 
weeks I should be back in Taveita with renewed zeal 
for my work, that I did not like to abandon my 
comfortable and well-ordered settlement to the wild 
beasts and white ants, especially as the ground it was 
built on was my own, purchased from the natives of 
Taveita. Therefore, after a little deliberation, finding, 
moreover, that I had many goods and implements of 
husbandry which I could neither carry to the coast, 
for want of porters, nor bring myself to throw away; 
and disliking also to abandon my goats, fowls, ducks, 
pigeons, and tame ostriches, I finally decided to leave 
four men in charge of the settlement, who should 
