my men up in a flame; they swore it was no use my
trying to go on to Karagiie; they would not go with
me; they did not come here to he killed. If I chose
to lose my life, it was no business of theirs, but they
would not be witness to it. They all wanted their discharge
at once; they would not run away, but must have
a letter of satisfaction, and then they would go back to
their homes at Zanzibar. But when they found they lost
all their arguments and could not move me, they said
they would go back for Grant, but when they had done
that duty, then they would take their leave.
10th to 15th.—This business being at last settled, I
wrote to Grant on the subject, and sent all the men
olf who were not sick. Thinking then how I could
best cure the disease that was keeping me down, as I
found the blister of no use, I tried to stick a packing
needle, used as a seton, into my side; but finding it was
not sharp enough, in such weak hands as mine, to go
through my skin, I got Baraka to tr y ; and he failing too,
I then made him fire me, for the coughing was so incessant
I could get no sleep at night. I had now nothing
whatever to think of but making dodges for lying easy,
and for relieving my pains, or else for cooking strong
broths to give me strength, for my legs were reduced to
the appearance of pipe-sticks, until the 15th, when Baraka,
in the same doleful manner as in Sorombo, came to
me and said he had something to communicate, which
was so terrible, if I heard it I should give up the march.
Lumeresi wras his authority, but he would not tell it until
Grant arrived. I said to him, “ Let us wait till Grant
arrives; we shall then have some one with us who won’t
shrink from whispers”—meaning Bombay; and so I let
the matter drop for the time being. But when Grant
came, we had it out of him, and found this terrible mystery
all hung on Lumdresi’s prognostications that we
never should get through Usui with so little cloth.
16 th to 19 th.—At night, I had such a terrible air-
catching fit, and made such a noise whilst trying to
fill my lungs, that it alarmed all the camp, so much
so that my men rushed into my tent to see if I was
dying. Lumeresi, in the morning, then went on a visiting
excursion into the district, but no sooner left than the
chief of Isamiro, whose place lies close to the N’yanza,
came here to visit him (17th) ; but after waiting a day
to make friends with me, he departed (18th), as I heard
afterwards, to tell his great Mhuma chief, Rohinda, the
ruler of Ukhanga, to which district this state of Bogiid
belongs, what sort of presents I had given to Lumeresi.
He was, in fact, a spy whom Rohinda had sent to ascertain
what exactions had been made from m7e , as h7e , beinOg
the great chief, was entitled to the most of them himself.
On Liimeresi’s return,' all the men of the villagOe ,7 as well
as mine, set up a dance, beating the drums all day and
all night.
20th to 2*1 st.—Next night they had to beat their
drums for a very different purpose, as the AVatuta,
after lifting all of Makaka’s cattle in Sorombo, came
hovering about, and declared they would never cease
fighting until they had lifted all those that Lumeresi
harboured round his boma; for it so happened that
Lumeresi allowed a large party of AVatosi, alias AVahuma,
to keep their cattle in large stalls all round his boma,
and these the AVatuta had now set their hearts upon.
After a little reflection, however, they thought better of
it, as they were afraid to come in at once on account of
my guns.
Most gladdening news this day came in to cheer me.
A large mixed caravan of Arabs and coast-men, arriving
from KaragGd, announced that both Riimanika and Stt-
warora w'ere anxiously looking out for us, wondering
why we did not come. So great, indeed, was Suwarora’s
desire to see us, that he had sent four men to invite us,