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The Sultan sulkily refused them, and bade him return to the white man and tell him not to bother him. Entreaties were of no avail, he would not relent; and the men, in exceedingly bad temper, and hungry, were obliged to go to bed supperless. The words of Njara, a slave- trader, and parasite of the great Sheikh bin Nasib, recurred to me.
"We discovered that this horde of banditti for in reality and without disguise they were nothing else was under the leadership of several chiefs, but principally under Karema and Kibunga. They had started sixteen months previously from Wane-Kirundu, about thirty miles below Vinya Njara. For eleven months the band had been raiding successfully between the Congo and the Lubiranzi, on the left bank.
Lo, the Arabs come by the hundred by the white man's road, to get the ivory from Ujiji. "I am that white man." "You?" « Yes." " Why it was reported that you were dead that you fought with the Wazavira." "Ah, my friend, these are the words of Njara, the son of Khamis. He is going with me to Unyanyembe to get his cloth, after which he will return to the great waters."
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