though not exactly in the same place ; but he treated our
message with disdain, not knowing then what a fix he
was in. Now, however, as he has seen more, and wishes
for peace himself, there can be no difficulty.” I then
ordered two of my men to go with two of Müsa’s to
acquaint Manüa Séra with what we were about, and to
know his views on the subject ; but these men returned
to say Manüa Sera could not be found, for he was driven
from “ pillar to post” by the different native chiefs, as,
wherever he went, his army ate up their stores, and
brought nothing but calamities with them. Thus died
this second attempted treaty. Músa then told me it was
well it turned out so ; for Manüa Séra would never believe
the Arabs, as they had broken faith so often before,
even after exchanging blood by cutting incisions in one
another’s legs—the most sacred bond or oath the natives
know of.
As nothing more of importance was done, I set out
with Grant to have a week’s shooting in the
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N’yama, im t o district, under the guidance of an old friend,
Fundi Sangoro, Müsa’s “ head gamekeeper,”
who assured me that the sable antelope and blanc boc,
specimens of which I had not yet seen, inhabited some
low swrampy place called N’yama, or “ Meat,” not far distant,
on the left bank of the Walé nullah. My companion
unfortunately got fever here, and was prevented
from going out, and I did little better; for although I
waded up to my middle every day, and wounded several
blanc boc, I only bagged one, and should not have got
even him, had it not happened that some lions in the
night pulled him down close to our camp, and roared so
violently that they told us the story. The first thing in
the morning I wished to have at them; but they took
the hint of daybreak to make off, and left me only the
half of the animal. I saw only one sable antelope. We
all went back to Kazé, arriving there on the 24th,
25th to 13th.—Days rolled on, and nothing was done
in particular — beyond increasing my stock of knowledge
of distant places and people, enlarging my zoological
collection, and taking long series of astronomical
observations—r until the 13th, when the whole of Kaze
was depressed by a sad scene of mourning and tears.
Some slaves came in that night—having made their way
through the wnods from Ugogo, avoiding the track to
save themselves from detection—and gave information
that Snay, Jaffi, and five other Arabs, had been killed,
as well as a great number of slaves. The expedition,
they said, had been defeated, and the positions were so
complicated nobody knew what to do. At first the
Arabs achieved two brilliant successes, having succeeded
in killing Hori Hori of Khoko, when they recovered their
ivory, made slaves of all they could find, and took a vast
number of cattle ; then attacking Usekhe, they reduced
that place to submission by forcing a ransom out of its
peopla At this period, however, they heard that a
whole caravan, carrying 5000 dollars’ worth of property,
had been cut up by the people of Mzanza, a small district
ten miles north of Usekhe ; so, instead of going on
to Kanyenye to relieve the caravans which were waiting
there for them, they foolishly divided their forces into
three parts. Of these they sent one to take their loot
back to Kaze, another to form a reserve force at Mda-
b&rii, on the east flank of the wilderness, and a third,
headed by Snay and Jaffi, to attack Mzanza. At the first
,onset Snay and Jafu carried everything before them, and
became so excited over the amount of their loot that they
lost all feelings of care or precaution.
In this high exuberance of spirits, a sudden surprise
turned their momentary triumph into a total defeat; for
some Wahumba, having heard the cries of the Wagogo,
joined in their cause, and both together fell on the Arab
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