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pass that the natives determined to fight. They brought out their flag and defiantly planted it outside the village. The women were ordered inside the stockade, and soon the great war drum rolled out its summons to the warriors of neighbouring villages to come to the attack. Upon this we yielded, and paid their enormous demand of more than a thousand yards of white cotton cloth ; but we said, "We will not go further this way, but will return straight back by the way we have come." " You may go where you like," they insolently replied, " now that you have paid." However, when we actually did go back — which they did not believe we should do — they sent messengers after us to beg us to return, and offered to restore the cloth which they had extorted from us ; but we were firm. "We had been promised another road by the great chief Mirambo, who wished to have Europeans in his country ; so we determined to go to him and claim his promise. I may say that eventually, through Mutinginya's influence, we regained most of the cloth which the people of Samwe had made us pay, and six cows for the bale which they had already cut up. The cows we presented to Mutinginya as an acknowledgment of all the trouble he had taken on our behalf.

The news of our return had preceded us to Uyui, where we had left Hannington ill, with Gordon, who was especially taking care of him. Such an unexpected event electrified him into new life, and in spite of his great weakness and the intense suffering which he had