174 
EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
my wearing a bright sash and a Terai hat, but it seemed 
to give C- such exquisite pleasure when he dis¬ 
covered it, that I freely forgave all my godfathers for 
having inflicted it upon me. 
A few natives of Ivahe, a neighbouring inhabited 
forest, and a Iviboso man paid us a visit, the latter 
having been ordered by Sina, his chief, “ not to 
return home without us, as he was anxious to make 
the white men’s acquaintance.” The Wa-kiboso are 
a powerful Caga tribe, boasting, and I believe possess¬ 
ing, over two thousand warriors who inhabit the 
southern slopes of Kilima-njaro some fifty to sixty 
miles west of Taveta ; they are neighbours of Mandara, 
with whom they are at deadly enmity. They had 
only recently made friends with the Wa-taveta, and 
were rather shy about visiting them, so the way they 
managed it safely was by picking up a Kalie man or 
two on the way (the Wa-kahe being mutual friends), 
and getting him to enlist the services of any Wa- 
taveta who, at the time, might be visiting Kahe, and 
then to proceed in company to Taveta. 
On February 8th the mail came in, having been 
delayed nearly five days; so, as by this time all the 
beads were ready strung, we decided to start on our 
second trip the next day. These beads were necessarily 
of all shapes and sizes and varied colours, for there is 
a wider difference in value between some of the trade 
beads than there is between gold and silver ; a string of 
one kind is, in certain districts, worth forty times as 
much as that of another variety. 
