perty except
six loads of beads, eighty yards of American sheeting, and many minor
articles, besides what had been rifled more or less from every load.
In the same letter he asked me to deliver up a Mhuma woman to a man who
came with the bearers of his missive, as she had made love to Saim at
Ukulima's, and had bolted with my men to escape from her husband.

On inquiring into this matter, she told me her face had been her
misfortune, for the man who now claimed her stole her from her parents
at Ujiji, and forcibly made her his wife, but ever since had ill-treated
her, often thrashing her, and never giving her proper food or clothing.
It was on this account she fell in love with Saim; for he, taking
compassion on her doleful stories, had promised to keep her as long as
he travelled with me, and in the end to send her back to her parents
at Ujiji. She was a beautiful woman, with gazelle eyes, oval face, high
thin nose, and fine lips, and would have made a good match for Saim, who
had a good deal of Arab blood in him, and was therefore, in my opinion,
much of the same mixed Shem-Hamitic breed. But as I did not want more
women in my camp, I have her some beads, and sent her off with the
messenger who claimed her, much against my own feelings. I had proposed
to Grant that, as Lumeresi's territories extended to within eight miles
of M'yonga's, he should try to move over the Msalala border by relays,
when I would send some Bogue men to meet him; for though Lumeresi would
not risk sending his men into the clutches of M'yonga, he was most
anxious to have another white visitor.

20th and 21st.--I again urged Lumeresi to help on Grant, saying it was
incumbent on him to call M'yonga to account for maltreating Grant's
porters, who were his own subjects, else the road would be shut up--he
would lose all the hongos he laid on caravans--and he would not be able
to send his own ivory down to the coast. This appeal had its effect: he
called on his men to volunteer, and twelve porters came forward, who no
sooner left, than in came another letter from Grant, informing me that
he had collected almost enough men to march with, and that M'yonga
had returned on of the six missing loads, and promised to right him in
everything.

Next day, however, I had from Grant two very opposite accounts--one,
in the morning, full of exultation, in which he said he hoped to reach
Ruhe's this very day, as his complement of porters was then completed;
while