. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . night and day, and we divided thetwenty-four hours into watches. The outposts, one ahead andone behind, were visited every hour day and night, eight menbeing placed at each during the day and sixteen at night. Having made the boma secure, we cleared away all bushand trees as far as the river, of \\hich we now had a view. Itbecame dreadfully hot inside the boma, as the high fence allround excluded every breeze, and our tents were so like anoven in
. Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their agricultural resources and general characteristics . night and day, and we divided thetwenty-four hours into watches. The outposts, one ahead andone behind, were visited every hour day and night, eight menbeing placed at each during the day and sixteen at night. Having made the boma secure, we cleared away all bushand trees as far as the river, of \\hich we now had a view. Itbecame dreadfully hot inside the boma, as the high fence allround excluded every breeze, and our tents were so like anoven in temperature that we had to throw water over thesmaller one to keep the inside cool, being afraid lest theammunition stored there should get over-heated. On the 10th I was very busy making shauri and allianceswith the Wa-Kamba, and Wa-Giryama. The latter came intocamp over 3(X) strong with their chief, singing their war-songs and afterwards going through their war-dance. TheWa-Kahoma and Wa-Choni tribes also declared themselvesready now and at any time to take up arms for the Compan).There was no doubt that the people were in earnest, and all. X TRAVELS IN EAST AFRICA 183 the villages on both sides of the Sabaki were beating theirwar-drums. I had asked for fifteen soldiers to garrison No. 2 Stockade,and fifteen Beluchis now arrived from Mombasa. They madea most timely addition to our force, which now mustered eighty-one guns. Mr. Burt also arrived from Melindi the same day,and in the evening the Wasania head-man returned from areconnaissance beyond Makongeni, reporting all quiet and nosigns of a hostile party anywhere. Weaver astonished themall considerably by exploding dynamite cartridges in the Sabakiand killing no end of fish. Next day, in the presence of Mr. Burt (who acted as in-terpreter) and the various chiefs, I held an inquiry into theorigin of the report which had caused all this alarm and traced its source to some evil-disposed natives, who had givena false
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