ABSTRACT
ON the 1st of January, 1867, we made our entry into the Galla country. We were to have left Mambrui early that morning, but were obliged to wait for the return of Hemmet bin Sayid from Malinde. He had promised us the services of his servant Abajila, an Islamized Galla, as interpreter. But at the last moment there was some hanging back on the part of this man. He did not see how he could conveniently leave Mambrui; he had a wife and plantation to look after; indeed he did not think he could go with us.
