C H A P T E R X X I .
F R O M U G A N D A TO K I K U Y U
WHEN I left Colonel Colvile at Mukwenda’s he pointed
out to me that I should have much difficulty in
finding porters to go to the coast, and therefore offered
to lend me some, as he had a good many men whose time
was up and whom he would have to send back. He also
enquired about the number of guns I had, and finding
out that I possessed but a few, he gave orders for fifty
Snider carbines to be lent to me, and also promised to give
me an armed escort of twenty men, as the Masai country
was still unsettled, and it was not wise to cross it without a
well-armed party. In return he asked me to take charge
of his mails.
My own party consisted of the faithful David, who by
this time had become my Katikiro—Prime Minister;
Inyarugwe, the little Senga slave who had been given to
me by Matakania, the Portuguese Capitao-Mor of Zumbo ;
and Malai'nga, the little slave paid to me by the Wahha as
a ransom for their chief. I have since brought this little
family to England, and all three of them have given me the
utmost satisfaction. David, as I have already said, has
travelled all over Europe with me and has since accompanied
me twice to Africa; Inyarugwe, who was constantly
suffering from fever in Africa, has never been ill since he
came to Europe; and little Malainga has lately passed the
fifth standard after two years’ schooling. They, are all
perfectly happy, and although I had been warned that they
would soon get spoiled, I found them quite the reverse, and,
INYARUGWE AND SABAO
(Two of my Zambezi children).