Slavery Had Received A Severe Blow By The Sharp Measures Colonel
Rigby Had Taken In Giving Tickets Of Emancipation To All Those
Slaves Whom Our Indian Subjects The Banyans Had Been Secretly
Keeping, And By Fining The Masters And Giving The Money To The
Men To Set Them Up In Life.
The interior of the continent had
been greatly disturbed, owing to constant war between the natives
and Arab ivory merchants.
Mguru Mfupi (or Short-legs), the chief
of Khoko in Ugogo, for instance, had been shot, and Manua Sera
(the Tippler), who succeeded the old Sultan Fundi Kira, of
Unyanyembe, on his death, shortly after the late expedition left
Kaze, was out in the field fighting the Arabs. Recent letters
from the Arabs in the interior, however, gave hopes of peace
being shortly restored. Finally, in compliance with my request -
and this was the most important item of news to myself - Colonel
Rigby had sent on, thirteen days previously, fifty-six loads of
cloth and beads, in charge of two of Ramji's men, consigned to
Musa at Kaze.
To call on the Sultan, of course, was our first duty. He
received us in his usually affable manner; made many trite
remarks concerning our plans; was surprised, if my only object in
view was to see the great river running out of the lake, that I
did not go by the more direct route across the Masai country and
Usoga; and then, finding I wished to see Karague, as well as to
settle many other great points of interest, he offered to assist
me with all the means in his power.
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