Still I would not give in, and the whole day kept "jawing" without effect, for I could get no man to go with me until the chief gave his sanction.

I then tried to send Bombay off with Bui, Nasib, and their guide, by night; but though Bombay was willing, the other two hung back on the old plea.

In this state of perplexity, Bui begged I would allow him to go over to Lumeresi and see what he could do with a present.

Bui really now was my only stand-by, so I sent him off, and next had the mortification to find that he had been humbugged by honeyed words, as Baraka had been with Makaka, into believing that Lumeresi was a good man, who really had no other desire at heart than the love of seeing me.

His boma, he said, did not lie much out of my line, and he did not wish a stitch of my cloth.