His object was to get paid for three days, while they only loitered here.
I suppose hunger has taken the spirit out of them; but I told them that a day in which no work was done did not count: they admitted this.

We pay about two feet of calico per day, and a fathom or six feet for three days' carriage.
_17th May, 1866._--With very empty stomachs they came on a few miles and proposed to cross to the south side; as this involved crossing the Luendi too, I at first objected, but in hopes that we might get food for them we consented, and were taken over in two very small canoes.

I sent Ali and Musa meanwhile to the south to try and get some food.

I got a little green sorghum for them and paid them off.

These are the little troubles of travelling, and scarce worth mentioning.