as bad where they had been as in Ugogo. To try and
get all the men together again, I now sent off a party
loaded with cloths to see what they could get for u s ; but
they returned on the 30th grinning and joking, with
nothing but a small fragment of goat-flesh, telling lies
by the dozens. Johur then came into camp, unconscious
that Baraka by my orders had, during his absence, been
inspecting his kit, where he found concealed seventy-
three yards of cloth, which could only have been my pro-
perty, as Johur had brought no akaba or reserve fund
from the coast.
The theft having been proved to the satisfaction of
every one, I ordered Baraka to strip him of everything
and give him three dozen lashes; but after twenty-one
had been given, the rest were remitted on his promising
to turn Queen’s evidence, when it transpired that Mtit-
wana had done as much as himself. Johur, it turned
out, was a murderer, having obtained his freedom by
killing his master. He was otherwise a notoriously bad
character; so, wishing to make an example, as I knew
all my men were robbing me daily, though I could not
detect them, I had him turned out of camp. Baraka was
a splendid detective, and could do everything well when
he wished it, so I sent him off now with cloths to see
what he could do at Jiwa la Mkoa, and next day he returned
triumphantly driving in cows and goats. Three
Wanyamudzi, also, who heard we were given to shooting
wild animals continually, came with him to offer their
services as porters.
As nearly all the men had now returned, Grant and I
To Jiwa la Mkoa, spent New Year’s Day with the first detach-
lsL ment at Jiwa la Mkoa, or Bound Bock—a
single tembe village occupied by a few Wakimbii settlers,
who, by their presence and domestic habits, made us feel
as though we were well out of the wood. So indeed, we
found i t ; for although this wilderness was formerly an
entire forest of trees and wild animals, numerous AVa-
kimbh, who formerly occupied the banks of the Bhaha to
T h e T e ih b e1. o r Mud Village, a t J iw n l a Mkoa.
the southward, had been driven to migrate here, wherever
they could find springs of water, by the boisterous naked
pastorals the AVarori.
| At night three slaves belonging to Sheikh Salem bin
Saif stole into our camp, and said they had been sent by
their master to seek for porters at Kaze, as all the AVan-
yamiiezi porters of four large caravans had deserted in
Ugogo, and they could not move. I was rather pleased
by this news, and thought it served the merchants right,
knowing, as I well did, that the AVanyamuezi, being naturally
honest, had they not been defrauded by foreigners
on the down march to the coast, would have been honest
still. Some provisions were now obtained by sending
men out to distant villages; but we still supplied the
camp with our guns, killing rhinoceros, wild boar, antelope,
and zebras. The last of our property did not come
up till the 5th, when another thief being caught, got
fifty lashes, under the superintendence of Baraka, to show
that punishment was only inflicted to prevent further
crime.