"Hajji Abdullah! What Hajji Abdullah? Ah! Sheikh Burton we call
him. Oh, he is a great man now; a balyuz (a consul) at El Scham"
(Damascus.)
"Heh-heh; balyuz! Heh, at El Scham! Is not that near Betlem
el Kuds?" (Jerusalem.)
"Yes, about four days. Spiki is dead. He shot himself by
accident."
"Ah, ah, Wallah (by God), but this is bad news. Spiki dead?
Mash-Allah! Ough, he was a good man - a good man! Dead!"
"But where is this Kazeh, Sheikh Sayd?"
Kazeh? Kazeh? I never heard the name before."
"But you were with Burton, and Speke, at Kazeh; you lived
there several months, when you were all stopping in Unyanyembe;
it must be close here; somewhere. Where did Hajji Abdullah and
Spiki live when they were in Unyanyembe? Was it not in Musa
Mzuri's house?"
"That was in Tabora."
"Well, then, where is Kazeh? I have never seen the man yet who
could tell me where that place is, and yet the three white men
have that word down, as the name of the place they lived at when
you were with them. You must know where it is."
"Wallahi, bana, I never heard the name; but stop, Kazeh, in
Kinyamwezi, means 'kingdom.' Perhaps they gave that name to the
place they stopped at. But then, I used to call the first house
Sny bin Amer's house, and Speke lived at Musa Mzuri's house, but
both houses, as well as all the rest, are in Tabora."
"Thank you, sheikh.
