All the Wanguana struck, and said they would go no further.

I argued--they argued; they wanted more pay--I would not give more.

Bombay, who appeared the only one of my men anxious to go on with Grant and myself, advised me to give in, else they would all run away, he said.

I still stuck out, saying that if they did go, they should be seized on the coast and cast into jail for desertion.
I had sent for fifty more men on the same terms as themselves, and nothing in the world would make me alter what had been established at the British Consulate.

There all their engagements were written down in the office-book, and the Consul was our judge.
29th to 4th .-- This shut them up, but at night two of them deserted; the Wanyamuezi porters also deserted, and I had to find more.