. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. DiAitr, lu, not askod leave to ^o, and liad doliboratoly loft thoir work. The officer told me the same four were there everv day; each man had five or six matakas with liim, ami this made me nearly certain the chiefs liad sent them, althongh of conrse they denied it. Some one must have ^iven them matakas to pjo with, for they only (ret one each a week, I was ^ow^ to have them fiogj^ed as an example, but Major Barttelot advised me to fine them each the amo
. The story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition [microform] . Explorers; Birds; Insects; Explorateurs; Oiseaux; Insectes. DiAitr, lu, not askod leave to ^o, and liad doliboratoly loft thoir work. The officer told me the same four were there everv day; each man had five or six matakas with liim, ami this made me nearly certain the chiefs liad sent them, althongh of conrse they denied it. Some one must have ^iven them matakas to pjo with, for they only (ret one each a week, I was ^ow^ to have them fiogj^ed as an example, but Major Barttelot advised me to fine them each the amount of matakas they had. Tliis will punish whoever <?ave them the matakas, so I told them that I would let them off the flofijf^ing, and for the next five or six weeks would pay them out of their own matakas. Aiif/nst Gth.—The Major went out in the morning with the Avoodcutters, whilst I looked after camp, and the men were employed stacking wood. I dried and packed ready for home all my Aruwimi collec- tion of buttei'fiies, consisting of just 100 specimens, (lid a little etching, dried the beltong, and went through my birds before packing. I have had the old flag of my company tied to tlie highest post in the boma, til at Tippu-Tib's people can make no mistake and pass us*. August 7th.—After breakfast Barttelot went off with some Zanzibaris and Soudanese to a village some dis- tance away from the river, and returned with a splendid lot of plantains. The natives are evidently still in a great fright, as they send all their women every night down to the village below camp, and the nien themselves sleep on this side of the river, above it. No news of Tippu's people! Hoisted another flag at the river-gate, so that no one can very well miss us passing down * From letter to Mrs. Jameson, Aurfust dth.—"I do hope Tippu-Tib's people will come soon, and then we shall be able to start for the Lakes at once, and save some months. Had the wonderful tieet of steamers of the Kin
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