However, They Had To Stand It; And Next Day, When I
Had Brought Them To Reason, I Gave Over The
Charge of my tent and
property to Baraka, and commenced the return with a bad hitching
cough, caused by those
Cold easterly winds that blow over the
plateau during the six dry months of the years, and which are, I
suppose, the Harmattan peculiar to Africa.
Next day I joined Grant once more, and found he had collected a
few Sorombo men, hoping to follow after me. I then told him all
my mishaps in Sorombo, as well as of the "blue-devil" frights
that had seized all my men. I felt greatly alarmed about the
prospects of the expedition, scarcely knowing what I should do.
I resolved at last, if everything else failed, to make up a raft
at the southern end of the N'yanza, and try to go up to the Nile
in that way. My cough daily grew worse. I could not lie or sleep
on either side. Still my mind was so excited and anxious that,
after remaining one day here to enjoy Grant's society, I pushed
ahead again, taking Bombay with me, and had breakfast at
Mchimeka's.
There I found the Pig, who now said he wished he had taken my
offer of beads, for he had spoken with his chief, and saw that I
was right. Baraka and the Wanguana were humbugs, and had they
not opposed his going, he would have gone then; even now, he
said, he wished I would take him again with Bombay.
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