I Was Roused Up, And Had Him Conveyed To My Tent.

I examined him, and I assured myself he was not suffering from fever of any kind; and in reply to my inquiries as to how he felt, he said he could neither walk nor ride, that he felt such extreme weakness and lassitude that he was incapable of moving further.

After administering a glass of port wine to him in a bowlful of sago gruel, we both fell asleep.

We arrived early the following morning at Mfuto, the rendezvous of the Arab army. A halt was ordered the next day, in order to make ourselves strong by eating the beeves, which we freely slaughtered.

The personnel of our army was as follows:

Sheikh Sayd bin Salim . . . . . . 25 half caste

" Khamis bin Abdullah . . . . 250 slaves

" Thani bin Abdullah . . . . 80 "

" Mussoud bin Abdullah . . . . 75 "

" Abdullah bin Mussoud . . . . 80 "

" Ali bin Sayd bin Nasib . . . 250 "

" Nasir bin Mussoud . . . . . 50 "

" Hamed Kimiami . . . . . . 70 "

" Hamdam . . . . . . . . 30 "

" Sayd bin Habib . . . . . . 50 "

" Salim bin Sayf . . . . . 100 "

" Sunguru . . . . . . . . 25 "

" Sarboko . . . . . . . . 25 "

" Soud bin Sayd bin Majid . . . 50 "

" Mohammed bin Mussoud . . . . 30 "

" Sayd bin Hamed . . . . . . 90 "

" The 'Herald' Expedition . . . 50 soldiers

" Mkasiwa's Wanyamwezi . . . 800 "

" Half-castes and Wangwana . . 125 "

" Independent chiefs and their followers . . . . . . . 300 "

These made a total of 2,255, according to numbers given me by Thani bin Abdullah, and corroborated by a Baluch in the pay of Sheikh bin Nasib. Of these men 1,500 were armed with guns - flint-lock muskets, German and French double-barrels, some English Enfields, and American Springfields - besides these muskets, they were mostly armed with spears and long knives for the purpose of decapitating, and inflicting vengeful gashes in the dead bodies.

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