I do most fervently thank the good Lord of all for His kindness to me through these gentlemen.

The men will come here about the end of this month.
Bombay happily pleaded sickness as an excuse for not re-engaging, as several others have done.

He saw that I got a clear view of his failings, and he could not hope to hoodwink me.
After Sangara came, I went over to Kukuru to see what the Lewale had received, but he was absent at Tabora.

A great deal of shouting, firing of guns, and circumgyration by the men who had come from the war just outside the stockade of Nkisiwa (which is surrounded by a hedge of dark euphorbia and stands in a level hollow) was going on as we descended the gentle slope towards it.

Two heads had been put up as trophies in the village, and it was asserted that Marukwe, a chief man of Mirambo, had been captured at Uvinza, and his head would soon come too.