Much Surprised At The
Various Articles Composing Our Kit, He Remarked That Our
"Sleeping-Clothes" - Blankets - Were Much Better Than His Royal
Robes; But Of All Things That Amused Him Most Were Our Picture-
Books, Especially Some Birds Drawn By Wolf.
Everything still seemed going against me; for on the following
day (24th) Musa's men came in from Rungua to
Say the Watuta were
"out." They had just seized fifty head of cattle from Rungua, and
the people were in such a state of alarm they dared not leave
their homes and families. I knew not what to do, for there was
no hope left but in what Baraka might bring; and as that even
would be insufficient, I sent Musa's men into Kaze, to increase
the original number by thirty men more.
Patience, thank God, I had a good stock of, so I waited quietly
until the 30th, when I was fairly upset by the arrival of a
letter from Kaze, stating that Baraka had arrived, and had been
very insolent both to Musa and to Sheikh Said. The bearer of the
letter was at once to go and search for porters at Rungua, but
not a word was said about the armed men I had ordered. At the
same time reports from the other side came in, to the effect that
the Arabs at Kaze and Msene had bribed the Watuta to join them,
and overrun the whole country from Ugogo to Usui; and, in
consequence of this, all the natives on the line I should have to
take were in such dread of that terrible wandering race of
savages, who had laid waste in turn all the lands from N'yassa to
Usui on their west flank, that not a soul dared leave his home.
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