both of which were promised.

Upon inquiring for the rest of the "Faithfuls" who accompanied
Speke into Egypt, I was told that at Zanzibar there were but six.
Ferrajji, Maktub, Sadik, Sunguru, Manyu, Matajari, Mkata, and
Almas, were dead; Uledi and Mtamani were in Unyanyembe; Hassan
had gone to Kilwa, and Ferahan was supposed to be in Ujiji.

Out of the six "Faithfuls," each of whom still retained his medal
for assisting in the "Discovery of the Sources of the Nile," one,
poor Mabruki, had met with a sad misfortune, which I feared would
incapacitate him from active usefulness.

Mabruki the "Bull-headed," owned a shamba (or a house with a garden
attached to it), of which he was very proud. Close to him lived a
neighbour in similar circumstances, who was a soldier of Seyd
Majid, with whom Mabruki, who was of a quarrelsome disposition, had
a feud, which culminated in the soldier inducing two or three of
his comrades to assist him in punishing the malevolent Mabruki, and
this was done in a manner that only the heart of an African could
conceive. They tied the unfortunate fellow by his wrists to a
branch of a tree, and after indulging their brutal appetite for
revenge in torturing him, left him to hang in that position for
two days. At the expiration of the second day, he was accidentally
discovered in a most pitiable condition. His hands had swollen to
an immense size, and the veins of one hand having been ruptured,
he had lost its use. It is needless to say that, when the affair
came to Seyd Majid's ears, the miscreants were severely punished.
Dr. Kirk, who attended the poor fellow, succeeded in restoring one
hand to something of a resemblance of its former shape, but the