Lumeresi, of course, was greatly perplexed at this, and sought my advice, but could get nothing out of me, for I laughed in my sleeve, and told him such was the consequence of his having been too greedy.
11th to 15th .-- Masudi with his caravan arrived from Mchimeka--Ungurue "the Pig," who had led me astray, was, by the way, his kirangozi or caravan-leader.

Masudi told us he had suffered most severely from losses by his men running away, one after the other, as soon as they received their pay.

He thought Grant would soon join me, as, the harvest being all in, the men about Rungua would naturally be anxious for service.
He had had fearful work with M'yonga, having paid him a gun, some gunpowder, and a great quantity of cloth; and he had to give the same to Ruhe, with the addition of twenty brass wires, one load of mzizima, and one load of red coral beads.

This was startling, and induced me to send all the men I could prudently spare off to Grant at once, cautioning him to avoid Ruhe's, as Lumeresi had promised me he would not allow one other thing to be taken from me.

Lumeresi by this time was improving, from lessons on the policy of moderation which I had been teaching him; for when he tried to squeeze as much more out of Masudi as Ruhe had taken, he gave way, and let him off cheaply at my intercession.