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On Friday, March 31, I resumed my march, starting at 5.45
a.m. for Marereni, sixteen miles away, where I proposed to
camp. We continued over the same fine open sandy beach
and low coast up to the Kilifi river, which, like the various
other creeks passed over lower down, was thickly fringed with
mangroves. Arriving at Marereni at 1 p.m. I camped for the
rest of that day, the place, being now quite empty of orchella-
weed gatherers.
THE ADMINISTRATOR’S HOUSE A T KILINDINI— MOMBASA.
The temperature this day had been as follows— 6 a.m., 78°;
1 p.m., 86°; 5 p.m., 85°; 6 p.m., 83°.
Saturday morning, April i.^Sf-I started for Gongoni, travelling
over the well-known path at a great rate, my people
being very keen to get home and'see their wives and children
after their long absence. I am pleased to mention that they
had never given me cause for a single complaint from the
day we had first started. Reaching Gongoni at eleven o’clock,
I remained there till the afternoon, when I set off for Magarini.
I found Weaver quite well, and he reported that all had gone
on satisfactorily on the shambas,