His thirst for blood is awful: he was bound, and word sent to bring the actual murderers within three days, or he suffers death.

He brought five goats, thinking that would smooth the matter over.
_11th February, 1871._--Men struck work for higher wages: I consented to give them six dollars a month if they behaved well; if ill I diminish it, so we hope to start to-morrow.

Another hunting quelled by Mohamad and me.
The ten men sent are all slaves of the Banians, who are English subjects, and they come with a lie in their mouth: they will not help me, and swear that the Consul told them not to go forward, but to force me back, and they spread the tale all over the country that a certain letter has been sent to me with orders to return forthwith.

They swore so positively that I actually looked again at Dr.Kirk's letter to see if his orders had been rightly understood by me.

But for Mohamad Bogharib and fear of pistol-shot they would gain their own and their Banian masters' end to baffle me completely; they demand an advance of one dollar, or six dollars a month, though this is double freeman's pay at Zanzibar.