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first Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa), Cyril Gordon, Joseph Blackburn, Walter Edmonds, Mr. Wise and myself.

Each of us had engaged one or more Zanzibar or Freretown mission boys as personal servants. My boy, Tom Tofiki, was quite above the average, and possessed, at any rate, the great virtue of honesty ; he was somewhat sluggish and by no means a good walker or worker — in fact he either would not or could not do anything very well except sing hymns, and that he did excellently. He never learnt to cook anything except "ugali," a thick coarse kind of porridge, and he used every morning to concoct a peculiar compound which he called coffee, but which rather exercised one's faith when it appeared at breakfast.

Our other porters were distributed in three camps : the Wangwana or Zanzibaris, who were all nominally Mahometans ; the Wanyamwezi, whose country stretches from the other side of Ugogo to the Nyanza, and the Wasukuma, or people of the north, who live on the shores of the lake. The Wangwana individually often display many fine and admirable qualities, though in large numbers they generally give infinite trouble. My experience with them on the whole has been fortunate, and I rarely found them insubordinate without some apparent reason for their disobedience. The Wanyamwezi belong to a sturdy and enterprising race ; they come in great numbers to the coast, conducting their own caravans. I have often seen four or five hundred of these