How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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Often The Preference Of The Pagazis Won The
Day, When Their Employers Were Timid, Irresolute Men, Like Sheikh
Hamed.
The 7th of June was the day fixed for our departure from Mukondoku,
so the day before, the Arabs came to my tent to counsel with me
as to the route we should adopt.
On calling together the kirangozis
of the respective caravans and veteran Wanyamwezi pagazis, we
learned there were three roads leading from Mukondoku to Uyanzi.
The first was the southern road, and the one generally adopted,
for the reasons already stated, and led by Kiwyeh. To this
Hamed raised objections. "The Sultan was bad," he said; "he
sometimes charged a caravan twenty doti; our caravan would
have to pay about sixty doti. The Kiwyeh road would not do at
all. Besides," he added, "we have to make a terekeza to reach
Kiwyeh, and then we will not reach it before the day after
to-morrow." The second was the central road. We should arrive
at Munieka on the morrow; the day after would be a terekeza from
Mabunguru Nullah to a camp near Unyambogi; two hours the next
day would bring us to Kiti, where there was plenty of water and
food. As neither of the kirangozis or Arabs knew this road, and
its description came from one of my ancient pagazis, Hamed said he
did not like to trust the guidance of such a large caravan in the
hands of an old Mnyamwezi, and would therefore prefer to hear about
the third road, before rendering his decision.
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