by the other, which came in the evening, I was shocked to hear
that M'yonga, after returning all the loads, much reduced by rifling,
had demanded as a hongo two guns, two boxed ammunition, forty brass
wires, and 160 yards of American sheeting, in default of which he,
Grant, must lend M'yonga ten Wanguana to build a boma on the west of
his district, to enable him to fight some Wasona who were invading his
territory, otherwise he would not allow Grant to move from his palace.
Grant knew not what to do. He dared not part with the guns, because
he knew it was against my principle, and therefore deferred the answer
until he heard from me, although all his already collected porters were
getting fidgety, and two had bolted. In this fearful fix I sent Baraka
off with strict orders to bring Grant away at any price, except the
threatened sacrifice of men, guns, and ammunition, which I would not
listen to, as one more day's delay might end in further exactions; at
the same time, I cautioned him to save my property as far as he could,
for it was to him that M'yonga had formerly said that what I paid him
should do for all.

Some of M'yonga's men who had plundered Grant now "caught a Tartar."
After rifling his loads of a kilyndo, or bark box of beads, they, it
appeared, received orders from M'yonga to sell a lot of female slaves,
amongst whom were the two Wahuma women who had absconded from this. The
men in charge, not knowing their history, brought them for sale
into this district, where they were instantly recognised by some of
Lumeresi's men, and brought in to him. The case was not examined at
once, Lumeresi happening to be absent; so, to make good their time, the
men in charge brought their beads to me to be exchanged for something
else, not knowing that both camps were mine, and that they held my beads
and not Grant's. Of course I took them from them, but did not give them
a flogging, as I knew if I did so they would at once retaliate upon
Grant. The poor Wahuma women, as soon as Lumeresi arrived, were put to
death by their husbands, because, by becoming slaves, they had broken
the laws of their race.

22d to 24th.--At last I began to recover. All this exciting news, with
the prospect of soon seeing Grant, did me a world of good,--so much
so, that I began shooting small birds for specimens--watching the
blacksmiths as they made tools, spears, ad bracelets--and doctoring some
of the Wahuma women who came to be treated for ophth