But he, heading the royalist party, soon reduced them to order, though only for a short while, as from that point they turned round to open mutiny for more rations; and some of the rebels tried to kill him, which, he said, they would have done had he not settled the matter by buying some cows for them.

It was on this account he had been obliged to open my loads.

And now he had told me the case, he hoped I would forgive him if he had done wrong.

Now, the real facts of the case were these--though I did not find them out at the time:--Baraka had bought some slaves with my effects, and he had had a fight with some of my men because they tampered with his temporary wife--a princess he had picked up in Phunze.

To obtain her hand he had given ten necklaces of MY beads to her mother, and had agreed to the condition that he should keep the girl during the journey; and after it was over, and he took her home, he would, if his wife pleased him, give her mother ten necklaces more.
Next day Baraka told me his heart shrank to the dimensions of a very small berry when he saw whom I had brought with me yesterday--meaning Bombay, and the same porters whom he had prevented going on with me before.