"Thank God! After fifty-seven days of living
upon matama porridge and tough goat, I have enjoyed with unctuous
satisfaction a real breakfast and dinner."
It was in one of the many small villages which are situated upon
the slopes of the Mpwapwa that a refuge and a home for Farquhar
was found until he should be enabled by restored health to start
to join us at Unyanyembe.
Food was plentiful and of sufficient variety to suit the most
fastidious - cheap also, much cheaper than we had experienced for
many a day. Leucole, the chief of the village, with whom
arrangements for Farquhar's protection and comfort were made, was
a little old man of mild eye and very pleasing face, and on being
informed that it was intended to leave the Musungu entirely under
his charge, suggested that some man should be left to wait on him,
and interpret his wishes to his people.
As Jako was the only one who could speak English, except Bombay
and Selim, Jako was appointed, and the chief Leucole was satisfied.
Six months' provisions of white beads, Merikani and Kaniki cloth,
together with two doti of handsome cloth to serve as a present to
Leucole after his recovery, were taken to Farquhar by Bombay,
together with a Starr's carbine, 300 rounds of cartridge, a set of
cooking pots, and 3 lbs.
