How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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No Sooner Had He Arrived In
Camp Than His Trim Dapper Form Was Seen Frisking About From Side
To Side Of The Great Boma, Fidgeting, Arranging, Disturbing
Everything And Everybody.
He permitted no bales or packs to be
intermingled, or to come into too close proximity to his own;
He had a favourite mode of stacking his goods, which he would
see carried out; he had a special eye for the best place for
his tent, and no one else must trespass on that ground. One
would imagine that walking ten or fifteen miles a day, he would
leave such trivialities to his servants, but no, nothing could
be right unless he had personally superintended it; in which
work he was tireless and knew no fatigue.
Another not uncommon peculiarity pertained to Sheikh Hamed; as
he was not a rich man, he laboured hard to make the most of every
shukka and doti expended, and each fresh expenditure seemed to
gnaw his very vitals: he was ready to weep, as he himself
expressed it, at the high prices of Ugogo, and the extortionate
demands of its sultans. For this reason, being the leader of
the caravans, so far as he was able we were very sure not to
be delayed in Ugogo, where food was so dear.
The day we arrived at Nyambwa will be remembered by Hamed as long
as he lives, for the trouble and vexation which he suffered. His
misfortunes arose from the fact that, being too busily engaged in
fidgeting about the camp, he permitted his donkeys to stray into
the matama fields of Pembera Pereh, the Sultan.
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