It will give you an infinity of trouble, but perhaps on the whole it will prove a cheaper and more advantageous course than engaging a caravan, and you will be less liable to desertion.' Fortunately there were at Lamu at this time a party of Wakwafi Askari (soldiers).

The Wakwafi, who are a cross between the Masai and the Wataveta, are a fine manly race, possessing many of the good qualities of the Zulu, and a great capacity for civilization.
They are also great hunters.

As it happened, these particular men had recently been on a long trip with an Englishman named Jutson, who had started from Mombasa, a port about 150 miles below Lamu, and journeyed right round Kilimanjaro, one of the highest known mountains in Africa.

Poor fellow, he had died of fever when on his return journey, and within a day's march of Mombasa.

It does seem hard that he should have gone off thus when within a few hours of safety, and after having survived so many perils, but so it was.