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" Mussoud bin Abdullah . . . . 75 " " Abdullah bin Mussoud . . . . 80 " " Ali bin Sayd bin Nasib . . . 250 " " Nasir bin Mussoud . . . . . 50 " " Hamed Kimiami . . . . . . 70 " " Hamdam . . . . . . . . 30 " " Sayd bin Habib . . . . . . 50 " " Salim bin Sayf . . . . . 100 " " Sunguru . . . . . . . . 25 " " Sarboko . . . . . . . . 25 " " Soud bin Sayd bin Majid . . . 50 "
When we went to visit Mussoud bin Abdullah, he showed me the very ground where Burton and Speke's house stood now pulled down and replaced by his office Sny bin Amer's house was also torn down, and the fashionable tembe of Unyanyembe, now in vogue, built over it, finely-carved rafters huge carved doors, brass knockers, and lofty airy rooms a house built for defence and comfort.
" Mohammed bin Mussoud . . . . 30 " " Sayd bin Hamed . . . . . . 90 " " The 'Herald' Expedition . . . 50 soldiers " Mkasiwa's Wanyamwezi . . . 800 " " Half-castes and Wangwana . . 125 " " Independent chiefs and their followers . . . . . . . 300 " These made a total of 2,255, according to numbers given me by Thani bin Abdullah, and corroborated by a Baluch in the pay of Sheikh bin Nasib.
Khamis bin Abdullah crept through the forest to the west of the village. The Wanyamwezi took their position before the main gateway, aided by the forces of Soud the son of Sayd on the right, and the son of Habib on the left, Abdullah, Mussoud, myself, and others made ready to attack the eastern gates, which arrangement effectually shut them in, with the exception of the northern side.
As in duty bound, of course, I greeted Sheikh Sayd first, then Sheikh bin Nasib, his Highness of Zanzibar's consul at Karagwa, then I greeted the noblest Trojan amongst the Arab population, noblest in bearing, noblest in courage and manly worth Sheikh Khamis bin Abdullah; then young Amram bin Mussoud, who is now making war on the king of Urori and his fractious people; then handsome, courageous Soud, the son of Sayd bin Majid; then dandified Thani bin Abdullah; then Mussoud bin Abdullah and his cousin Abdullah bin Mussoud, who own the houses where formerly lived Burton and Speke; then old Suliman Dowa, Sayd bin Sayf, and the old Hetman of Tabora Sheikh Sultan bin Ali.
The finest house in Unyanyembe belongs to Amram bin Mussoud, who paid sixty frasilah of ivory over $3,000 for it. Very fair houses can be purchased for from twenty to thirty frasilah of ivory. Amram's house is called the "Two Seas" "Baherein." It is one hundred feet in length, and twenty feet high, with walls four feet thick, neatly plastered over with mud mortar.
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