On Hearing My Fix, Abdalla
Said I Should Have Men; And, What's More, He Would Go With Me As
His Father Had Promised To Do; But He Had A Large Caravan
Detained In Ugogo, And For That He Must Wait.
At that moment Manua Sera was in a boma at Kigue, in alliance
with the chief of that place;
But there was no hope for him now,
as all the Arabs had allied themselves with the surrounding
chiefs, including Kitambi; and had invested his position by
forming a line, in concentric circles, four deep, cutting off his
supplies of water within it, so that they daily expected to hear
of his surrendering. The last news that had reached them brought
intelligence of one man killed and two Arabs wounded; whilst, on
the other side, Manua Sera had lost many men, and was put to such
straits that he had called out if it was the Arabs' determination
to kill him he would bolt again; to which the Arabs replied it
was all the same; if he ran up to the top of the highest mountain
or down into hell, they would follow after and put him to death.
3d. - After much bother and many disappointments, as I was assured
I could get no men to help me until after the war was over, and
the Arabs had been to Ugogo, and had brought up their property,
which was still lying there, I accepted two men as guides - one
named Bui, a very small creature, with very high pretensions, who
was given me by Abdalla - the other, a steady old traveller, named
Nasib (or Fortune), who was given me by Fundi Sangoro.
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