Baraka Approached Me
Triumphantly, Saying How Well He Had Managed The Business.
M'yonga did not wish to see me, because he did not know the coast
language.
He was immensely pleased with the present I had given
him, and said he was much and very unjustly abused by the Arabs,
who never came this way, saying he was a bad man. He should be
very glad to see Grant, and would take nothing from him; and,
though he did not see me in person, he would feel much affronted
if I did not stop the night there. In the meanwhile he would
have the cows brought in, for he could not allow any one to leave
his country abused in any way.
My men had greatly amused him by firing their guns off and
showing him the use of their sword-bayonets. I knew, as a matter
of course, that if I stopped any longer I should be teased for
more cloths, and gave orders to my men to march the same instant,
saying, if they did not - for I saw them hesitate - I would give
the cows to the villagers, since I knew that was the thing that
weighed on their minds. This raised a mutiny. No one would go
forward with the two cows behind; besides which, the day was far
spent, and there was nothing but jungle, they said, beyond. The
kirangozi would not show the way, nor would any man lift a load.
A great confusion ensued.
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