I ought to have thought of that, Allan, but I didn't.
Well, in that letter I said that I would meet you here, where I should have been six weeks ago awaiting you.

Also I sent a message to Bausi to warn him of your coming in case I should be delayed, but I suppose that something happened to it on the road." "Why did you not wait and come with us like a sensible man ?" "Allan, as you ask me straight out, I will tell you, although the subject is one of which I do not care to speak.

I knew that you were going to journey by Kilwa; indeed it was your only route with a lot of people and so much baggage, and I did not wish to visit Kilwa." He paused, then went on: "A long while ago, nearly twenty-three years to be accurate, I went to live at Kilwa as a missionary with my young wife.

I built a mission station and a church there, and we were happy and fairly successful in our work.

Then on one evil day the Swahili and other Arabs came in dhows to establish a slave-dealing station.