He thinks that we have some self-interest to secure in passing through the country, and therefore he has a right to a share in the gain.

When told it was for a public benefit, he pulled down the underlid of the right eye.[49] He believes we shall profit by our journey, though he knows not in what way.
It is possibly only a coincidence, but no sooner do we meet with one who accompanied Speke and Burton to Tanganyika, than the system of mulcting commences.

I have no doubt but that Janje told this man how his former employers paid down whatever was demanded of them.
_10th February, 1867._--I had service in the open air, many looking on, and spoke afterwards to the chief, but he believes nothing save what Speke and Burton's man has told him.

He gave us a present of corn and ground-nuts, and says he did not order the people not to sell grain to us.

We must stop and eat green maize.