Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

188 DHOW-CHASING.
borough and Sally, and Jim and Peggy, go
grindum cornum and boilum in the potum you
have dinner, if not, you have none." Just then
Peggy made her appearance. "What's the
matter, Peggy?" Some Galla language uninteUigible
was the reply. "Oh! has she, poor
old girl, lost her boy ? Where's Billy ?" This
name was understood by her now, and she
pointed to her boy in the arms of one of the
men in the gangway. " Oh !
that's not it.
Well, what is it?" At last it was understood
that Peggy wanted some fish for dinner as we
had caught a shark that day. Such was the
occupation of our senior Lieutenant, whose goodhumour
and equanimity never forsook him.
He never wearied of doing his best for these
poor creatures ; and, ill or dying, as many of
them were, they needed much compassion and
patience to be exercised towards them.
Native Languages.
The language on the East Coast of Africa,
from south of the Zambesi to Formosa Bay,
the north extreme of Zanzibar, is chiefly