Though Half Inclined To Accept His Offer, Which Would Have Saved A Long Trudge To Kaze, Yet As He Had Tricked Me So Often, I Felt There Would Be No Security Unless I Could Get Some Coast Interpreters, Who Would Not Side With The Chiefs Against Me As He Had Done.

From this I went on to Sirboko's, and spent the next day with him talking over my plans.

The rafting up the lake he thought a good scheme; but he did not think I should ever get through Usui until all the Kaze merchants went north in a body, for it was no use trying to force my men against their inclinations; and if I did not take care how I handled them, he thought they would all desert.

My cough still grew worse, and became so bad that, whilst mounting a hill on entering Ungugu's the second day after, I blew and grunted like a broken-winded horse, and it became so distressing I had to halt a day. In two more marches, however, I reached Kaze, and put up with Musa's eldest son, Abdalla, on the 2nd July, who now was transformed from a drunken slovenly boy into the appearance of a grand swell, squatting all day as his old father used to do. The house, however, did not feel the same- -no men respected him as they had done his father. Sheikh Said was his clerk and constant companion, and the Tots were well fed on his goats - at my expense, however.

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