KAOEI TO TABOEA AND BACK. 133 been driven out and Kisesa had usurped his post. This rather upset my plans, as Morton said it' would not be safe for me to go to Tabora just yet, and there was no news of Mackay, the story told by Said bin Salim's men being an utter falsehood ; so I decided to wait a few days here to see how matters turned out, and to write home accounts of the events of the last few weeks. On February llth, news having come that Tabora was quiet again, I went over there, and was hospitably received by Kisesa and his brother, Sheik bin Nasib, at their comfortable house in Kwihara, where I remained until the 15th. I may mention here that the name Kazeh, given by Speke and Grant to Tabora, and which has puzzled some travellers, was the name of Musa Mzuri's house ; most of the Arab houses having distinctive names. Sheik bin Nasib had been a long time at Unyanyenibe, and I had several conversations with him about Livingstone, Burton (Haji Abdullah, as he is called), and other travellers, more especially Speke, who is undoubtedly the most popular of all the European explorers in this part of Africa. Sheik bin Nasib had also, in his younger days, been to Karagwe and Uganda, and told me long stories about Dagera and Siina, the fathers of Eumanika and Mtesa. Siina he represented as an intensely nervous man, who was in constant dread of assassination, and who would, on that account, never sleep in his own house, but waited till it was