He Wished Me To Degrade
Him, If I Thought Him Dishonest; Threw Himself On The Ground, And
Kissed My Feet.
I might thrash him, turn him into a porter, or
do anything else that I liked with him, as long as I did not
bring a charge of dishonesty against him.
He could not explain
himself with Baraka's long tongue opposed to him, but there were
many deficiencies in my wires before he took overcharge at Bogue,
which he must leave for settlement till the journey was over, and
then, the whole question having been sifted at Zanzibar, we would
see who was the most honest. I then counted all the wires over,
at Bombay's request, and found them complete in numbers, without
those he had set aside from the dowry money. Still there was a
doubt, for the wires might have been cut by him without
detection, as from the commencement they were of different
lengths. However, I tried to make them friends, claimed all the
wires myself, and cautioned every man in the camp again, that
they were all losers when anything was misappropriated; for I
brought this property to pay our way with and whatever balance
was over at the end of the journey I would divide amongst the
whole of them.
12th and 13th. - When more sober, Bombay again came to crave a
thousand pardons for what he had done, threw himself down at my
feet, then at Grant's, kissed our toes, swore I was his Ma Pap
(father and mother); he had no father or mother to teach him
better; he owed all his prosperity to me; men must err sometimes;
oh, if I would only forgive him, - and so forth.
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