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since he had put many of his subjects to death for 
letting out state secrets to the Wa-kahe. He had 
recently established a kind of mail between Kiboso 
and Kahe, which probably enabled him to incorporate 
with it a useful system of espionage. 
We heard a good deal of firing in Mandara’s direction 
during the evening, which we were told was the result 
of a Wa-kiboso attack. Mandara was likely to have 
a busy time of it, seeing that the Wa-kahe were prepar¬ 
ing to surprise him during the night or early morning. 
During this time of short rations Anole was, of 
course, living in comparative luxury. Somehow he 
always managed to beg, borrow, or steal a sufficiency 
of bananas for himself. On this eventful day he induced 
a Ivahe native to give him an extra supply, on “tick,” 
by the promise of a good hunk of meat from the first 
animal I killed. I am afraid that confiding Ivahe made 
a bad bargain, as I only succeeded in killing nothing. 
We had a very tedious march through bush and long 
coarse grass the following day, as there was no regular 
track, and though we zigzagged about for fifteen miles, 
I don’t think we made more than a matter of eight as 
the crow flies. We halted by a small stream running 
parallel to the mountain, but which a little lower down 
alters its course to south-west and empties itself into the 
Weri-weri river. The surrounding bush was dense, 
though much intersected by elephant-tracks made 
during the rains, and C- had the good fortune to 
kill a very large bull giraffe, while I got some guinea- 
fowl and sand-grouse ; so we were able to have a big 
