Beads He Must Have, Or I Was "His Enemy." A
Selection Of The Best Opal Beads Was Immediately Given Him.
I rose from
the stone upon which I was sitting and declared that we must start
immediately.
"Don't be in a hurry," he replied; "you have plenty of
time; but you have not given me that watch you promised me." ... This
was my only watch that he had begged for, and had been refused, every
day during my stay at M'rooli. So pertinacious a beggar I had never
seen. I explained to him that without the watch my journey would be
useless, but that I would give him all that I had except the watch when
the exploration should be completed, as I should require nothing on my
direct return to Gondokoro. At the same time I repeated to him the
arrangement for the journey that he had promised, begging him not to
deceive me, as my wife and I should both die if we were compelled to
remain another year in this country by losing the annual boats at
Gondokoro.
The understanding was this: he was to give me porters to the lake, where
I was to be furnished with canoes to take me to Magungo, which was
situated at the junction of the Somerset. From Magungo he told me that I
should see the Nile issuing from the lake close to the spot where the
Somerset entered, and that the canoes should take me down the river, and
porters should carry my effects from the nearest point to Shooa, and
deliver me at my old station without delay.
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