But
The Curse Of Noah Sticks To These His Grandchildren By Ham, And
No Remedy That Has Yet Been Found Will Relieve Them.
They
require a government like ours in India; and without it, the
slave trade will wipe them off the face of the earth.
Now leaving the open parks of pretty acacias, we followed up the
Mgazi branch of the Mgeta, traversed large tree-jungles, where
the tall palm is conspicuous, and drew up under the lumpy
Mkambaku, to find a residence for the day. Here an Arab
merchant, Khamis, bound for Zanzibar, obliged us by agreeing for
a few dollars to convey our recent spoils in natural history to
the coast.
My plans for the present were to reach Zungomero as soon as
possible, as a few days' halt would be required there to fix the
longitude of the eastern flank of the East Coast Range by
astronomical observation; but on ordering the morning's march,
the porters - too well fed and lazy - thought our marching-rate
much too severe, and resolutely refused to move. They ought to
have made ten miles a-day, but preferred doing five. Argument
was useless, and I was reluctant to apply the stick, as the Arabs
would have done when they saw their porters trifling with their
pockets. Determining, however, not to be frustrated in this
puerile manner, I ordered the bugler to sound the march, and
started with the mules and coast-men, trusting to Sheikh and
Baraka to bring on the Wanyamuezi as soon as they could move
them.
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