There we can get a fowl for one string of beads, here it costs six: there fish may be bought, here none.

Three of Casembe's principal men are here, Kakwata, Charley, and Kapitenga; they are anxious to go home, and would be a gain to me, but Mohamad detains them, and when I ask his reason he says "Muabo refuses," but they point to Mohamad's house and say, "It is he who refuses." [A very serious desertion took place at this time amongst Dr.
Livingstone's followers.

Not to judge them too harshly they had become to a great extent demoralised by camp life with Mohamad and his horde of slaves and slavers.

The Arab tried all he could to dissuade the traveller from proceeding south instead of homewards through Ujiji, and the men seem to have found their own breaking-point where this disappointment occurred.] _13th April, 1868._--On preparing to start this morning my people refused to go: the fact is, they are all tired, and Mohamad's opposition encourages them.

Mohamad, who was evidently eager to make capital out of their refusal, asked me to remain over to-day, and then demanded what I was going to do with those who had absconded.