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Usui.
Taxation recommenced--A Great Doctor--Suwarora pillaging--The Arabs--Conference with an Ambassador from Uganda--Disputes in Camp--Rivalry of Bombay and Baraka--Departure from the Inhospitable Districts.
We were now in Usui, and so the mace-bearers, being on their own ground forgot their manners, and peremptorily demanded their pay before they would allow us to move one step farther.

At first I tried to stave the matter off, promising great rewards if they took us quickly on to Suwarora; but they would take no alternative--their rights were four wires each.

I could not afford such a sum, and tried to beat them down, but without effect; for they said, they had it in their power to detain us here a whole month, and they could get us bullied at every stage by the officers of the stations.

No threats of reporting them to their chief had any effect, so, knowing that treachery in these countries was a powerful enemy, I ordered them to be paid.