They made themselves thoroughly disliked by their foul talk and abuse, and if anything tended more than another to show me that theirs was a moral unfitness for travel, it was the briskness assumed when they knew they were going back to the coast.

I felt inclined to force them on, but it would have been acting from revenge, and to pay them out, so I forbore.

I gave Mataka forty-eight yards of calico, and to the sepoys eighteen yards, and arranged that he should give them food till Suleiman, a respectable trader, should arrive.

He was expected every day, and we passed him near the town.

If they chose to go and get their luggage, it was of course all safe for them behind.