MUTINOUS PORTERS. 
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favour of the game and against the sportsman, but 
those who were able to work did well. 
Our present position was within a short distance of 
the base of the Sogonoi mountains, an isolated group 
some seventy miles south-west of Taveta and about 
thirty miles south of Kilima-njaro. Here we had 
another mutinous outbreak amongst our troublesome 
porters ; they came in a body and demanded full 
rations of native grain, instead of the rations of half 
meat and half grain we had been serving out of late. 
By way of making them work for their particular 
caprice in the matter of food, we organised a fatigue- 
party which should proceed every few days to Kiboso, 
to obtain exactly what they required, and this decision 
kept them on the continual trot, to their discomfiture 
and to our satisfaction. 
At the time we were very angry with them, and ex¬ 
pected they would soon be clamouring again for meat, 
for they are like those greedy children who are never 
satisfied with anything they get. But, to our surprise 
and disappointment, they did not renew their request 
for meat for a considerable time. About a month later 
we discovered the originator of the whole trouble was 
no other than that horrid old fox, Caceche, our head¬ 
man. He alone had induced the others to rebel; and 
though we never were quite sure about his object, a 
dread of the Masai, combined with an inborn love of 
mischief-making, had doubtless a good deal to do 
with it. 
