recovered, for Sirboko bad warned Ugali tbe chief, and he
had promised to send his Waganga, or magicians, out to
track them down, unless the neighbouring chief chose to
give them up. After waiting two days, as no men came
from Rungtia, I begged Grant to push ahead on to Ukuni,
just opposite Rungiia, with all my coast-men, whilst I
remained behind for the arrival of Miisa’s men and porters
to carry on the rest of the kit—for I had now twenty-
two in addition to men permanently enlisted, who took
service on the same rate of pay as my original coast-
men; though, as usual, when the order for marching was
issued, a great number were found to be either sick or
malingering.
Two days afterwards, Musa’s men came in with porters,
To Mbisti, 20th who would not hire themselves for more than
and 21s‘- two marches, having been forbidden to do so
by their chief on account of the supposed Watuta invasion;
and for these two marches they required a quarter of the
whole customary hire to Karaghe. Miisa’s traps, too, I
found, were not to be moved, so I saw at once Musa had
not kept faith with me, and there would be a fresh set of
difficulties; but as every step onwards was of the greatest
importance—for my men were consuming my stores at a
fearful pace—I paid down the beads they demanded, and
next day joined Grant at Mbisu, a village of Ukiini held
by a small chief called Mchimeka, who had just concluded
a war of two years’ standing with the great chief Ukulima
(the Digger), of Nunda (the Hump). During the whole
of the two years’ warfare the loss was only three men on
each side. Meanwhile Musa’s men bolted like thieves one
night, on a report coming that the chief of Unyambewa,
after concluding the war, whilst amusing himself with his
wife, had been wounded on the foot by an arrow that fell
from her hand. The injury had at once taken a mortal
turn, and the chief sent for his magicians, who said it
was not the fault of the wife—somebody else must have