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arrived, and preparations were being made to relieve Lado. At last, on the 18th, the longed-for news came that Kabréga’s men were on the way. A letter from Kabréga informed me that their departure had been delayed because the Arabs had no wares; he had not, however, granted the Zanzibar men ‘permission to come here. On the 23d the men arrived, and with them seven boys whom Kabréga had sent to learn to read and write Arabic, and a chief, who was to remain here “‘to manage the speedy despatch of letters,” 2.¢., to keep a watch on us all, and to inform Kabréga of all occurrences, and send him news as quickly as possible. Kabréga writes that my presents had arrived, and he also sends some to me, begging my acceptance of them; then follows a very respectable list of articles which he wishes to be despatched to him. I quote some of these demands for your edification: ammunition for his revolvers, a couple of asses, a thousand sheets of paper, an Arabic book, boots, shoes, illustrated papers, a trumpet, a drum, medicines, a parasol, a screw-driver, files, needles, buttons, &c.

He sends a curious request for me to teach the seven youngsters he has sent to read and write industriously (the language of the Nassara),* and not to let them play. In a second letter he repeats his invitation to me, and says that the Arabs had sent to Uganda for goods: he sends what was in store. “I have sent your letters, not to the Nassara (probably the English in Uganda are meant), but to Zanzibar. I have also heard that English and Americans have arrived in Usukuma, and, if you come to me, you will hear all with your own ears, whether it be good or bad.” If Kabréga has really sent my letters direct to Zanzibar by the Arabs, I am not exactly pleased, but there will always be quid pro quos till Junker makes up his mind to go to Uganda. Kabréga’s men say that a steamer brought by Europeans has been attacked by the Waganda in the north of the Victoria Lake, and after the loss of a European, has steamed off to the south. Probably it is all a myth. It is a fortunate thing that I received a quantity of cloths at Christmas. All got a share of them, heathens and Christians, so that we look quite respectable * The language of the Christians.