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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On The Return Of The Unfortunate Arabs To Unyanyembe, They
Reported The Facts To Sheikh Sayd Bin Salim, The Governor Of The
Arab Colony.
This old man, being averse to war, of course tried
every means to induce Mirambo as of old to
Be satisfied with
presents; but Mirambo this time was obdurate, and sternly
determined on war unless the Arabs aided him in the warfare he
was about to wage against old Mkasiwa, sultan of the Wanyamwezi
of Unyanyembe.
"This is the status of affairs," said Khamis bin Abdullah.
"Mirambo says that for years he has been engaged in war against
the neighbouring Washensi and has come out of it victorious; he
says this is a great year with him; that he is going to fight
the Arabs, and the Wanyamwezi of Unyanyembe, and that he shall
not stop until every Arab is driven from Unyanyembe, and he rules
over this country in place of Mkasiwa. Children of Oman, shall
it be so? Speak, Salim, son of Sayf, shall we go to meet this
Mshensi (pagan) or shall we return to our island?"
A murmur of approbation followed the speech of Khamis bin Abdullah,
the majority of those present being young men eager to punish the
audacious Mirambo. Salim, the son of Sayf, an old patriarch, slow
of speech, tried to appease the passions of the young men, scions
of the aristocracy of Muscat and Muttrah, and Bedaweens of the
Desert, but Khamis's bold words had made too deep an impression on
their minds.
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