support to the sultm After hearing fhoio insult«,
and swing the powder, ri\, ivcavoivd, I wtdkod i>ut-
ride the vithvgv end sat down, feeling sick, snre tit
heart, and exhausted from the detestable strife, hut.
thankful to Clod that I had so nmeh command of
temper. A servant reported that; he and another
must sleep that night with their loads in the village,
as security tor my paying some elot.h and beads.
Anvthing to got awnv. and 1 marched to my advanced
camp, eight miles oft, regretting that I had not hid
adieu to the sultana.
*18#*,— Sent back the cloths to tho sultan by
ITledi. Bo jolly and civilised-like to have a note
brought me by three or four Seedoes from Speke,
wanting rue up sharp! Uledi returned at sunset,
having satisfied the sultan. Said, Rehan, and Baraka
sent m l they would be up in the morning; so like
an African's system of procrastination, winning the
mornings and evenings from us, and saying the day
is too hot to move.
- n th .— March three miles to a wretched village.
A number of men hanging on for hire; one man promised
for Karague, and backed out of it because I
marhfonfd him by writing his name down. Tried to
make an afternoon march, but no one would stir; besides.
three loads were behind
~ — Under way outside the village by six A.M.;
eight loads still on the ground, no porters to carry
them, and loads in the rear belonging to men sleeping
in other villages. Every day seems to be won from
mp Countermand the march till the afternoon; a
pmip had struck the porters. The Watuta are at the
w r t ground from camp. I took the chief porter,
walked there and I nick, 20 mile#, by ííj¡ MM,, and
fon tul this muoh-drecwled tribe bad left tbaf morning,
“ I (i///,,- Having aroused my camp, a noisy eon-
venation soon began with Home Mtrange armed men,
who had been went by Bul tan Myonga to insist on my
vímítiiig him with my caravan ; but as I Maw ye#ter-
duy that his residence was completely out of toy watte,
and as Speke had; laid down that no further present
should be made to liim, hi* 'soldiers’ were told this; but,
at the turn to their master’s village, they planted their
spears in defiance, and dared us to proceed by any but
their way. We laughed at them, and held on our road
for seven miles, when out of some thick cover came a
howling of voices. I was about the third from the head O
of my Indian file, when a troop of about two hundred,
with assigais, bows and arrows, burst upon us, springing
over the ground like cats. Passing the van,
apparently without any intention of molesting us, or
‘ showing their colours/ no one stopped even to look at
them; but of a sudden they broke in upon the centre
of our line, and, with uplifted assigais and shouts,
frightened the porters to give up their loads and fly,
if they could escape the hands of the ruffians who
were pulling their clothes and heads from them. Seeing
my goods carried off, I tried, without bloodshed,
to prevent it; for they were too numerous
to attack, as I had but one of my gun-men and two
natives. On searching for others, I found Rehan with
rifle at full cock, defending two loads against five of
the men. He had been told by Manna that he was £ a
fool to think of the loads; fly for your life! ’ hut the
property, he said, was his life. On making for the
village of the Sultan Myonga to seek redress I was