infused the idea into their minds that I will not pay them,
and exclaims "Look at the sepoys!"--not knowing that they are paid by
the Indian Government; and as for the Johanna men, they were prepaid
_29l. 4s._ in cash, besides clothing. I sent Amoda's bundle back to
Mohamad: my messenger got to Kabwabwata before Amoda did, and he
presented himself to my Arab friend, who, of course, scolded him: he
replied that he was tired of carrying, and no other fault had he; I
may add that I found out that Amoda wished to come south to me with
one of Mohamad Bogharib's men, but "Mpamari" told him not to return.
Now that I was fairly started, I told my messenger to say to Mohamad
that I would on no account go to Ujiji, till I had done all in my
power to reach the Lake I sought: I would even prefer waiting at Luao
or Moero, till people came to me from Ujiji to supplant the runaways.
I did not blame them very severely in my own mind for absconding: they
were tired of tramping, and so verily am I, but Mohamad, in
encouraging them to escape to him, and talking with a double tongue,
cannot be exonerated from blame. Little else can be expected from him,
he has lived some thirty-five years in the country, twenty-five being
at Casembe's, and there he had often to live by his wits.
Consciousness of my own defects makes me lenient.

_16th April, 1868._--Ndowa gives Mita or Mpamankanana as the names of
the excavations in Muabo's hills, he says that they are sufficient to
conceal all the people of this district in case of war: I conjecture
that this implies room for ten thousand people: provisions are stored
in them, and a perennial rivulet runs along a whole street of them. On
one occasion, when the main entrance was besieged by an enemy, someone
who knew all the intricacies of the excavations led a party out by a
secret passage, and they, coming over the invaders, drove them off
with heavy loss. Their formation is universally ascribed to the Deity.
This may mean that the present inhabitants have succeeded the original
burrowing race, which dug out many caves adjacent to Mount Hor--the
_Jebel Nebi Harin_, Mount of the Prophet Aaron, of the Arabs--and many
others; and even the Bushman caves, a thousand miles south of this
region.

A very minute, sharp-biting mosquito is found here: the women try to
drive them out of their huts by whisking bundles of green leaves all
round the walls before turning into them.

_17th August, 1868._--Crossed the