8th. - As I Had No Interpreters, And Could Not Go Forward Myself,
I Made Up My Mind At Once To
Send back all my men with Bombay, to
Grant; after joining whom, Bombay would go back to Kaze again for
Other interpreters, and on his return would pick up Grant, and
bring him on here. This sudden decision set all my men up in a
flame; they swore it was no use my trying to go on to Karague;
they would not go with me; they did not come here to be killed.
If I chose to lose my life, it was no business of theirs, but
they would not be witness to it. They all wanted their discharge
at once; they would not run away, but must have a letter of
satisfaction, and then they would go back to their homes at
Zanzibar. But when they found they lost all their arguments and
could not move me, they said they would go back for Grant, but
when they had done that duty, then they would take their leave.
10th to 15th. - This business being at last settled, I wrote to
Grant on the subject, and sent all the men off who were not sick.
Thinking then how I could best cure the disease that was keeping
me down, as I found the blister of no use, I tried to stick a
packing needle, used as a seton, into my side; but finding it was
not sharp enough, in such weak hands a mine, to go through my
skin, I got Baraka to try; and he failing too, I then made him
fire me, for the coughing was so incessant I could get no sleep
at night.
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