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His soldiers ran as fast as their legs could carry them, the only one of his followers who remained by his master's side being young Selim. At length they reached Mfuto, from which they had issued forth so valiantly a short time before. Stanley had felt it his duty to assist the Arabs, though he had now cause to regret having done so. From the last-mentioned place he returned to Kivihara.
As he had expected, Mirambo advanced; and one of the leading Arabs and his adopted son, who had gone out with their slaves to meet him, the slaves having deserted, were killed. The neighbouring village of Tabora was burned, and Kivihara itself was threatened.
A large district, however, presented the sad spectacle of numerous villages burnt down, cattle carried off, and the grain-fields overrun with jungle and rank weeds too common a sight in that part of the country. The expedition at length entered Kivihara, the capital of the province ruled over by the aged Sultan Mkaswa, who received Stanley in a friendly way.
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