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Before describing my first interview with Mandara, the chief of Moši, it may be well to say a few explanatory words about his actual position and previous career.
By Sir John Kirk's advice I directed my steps to his kingdom and capital in the first instance, for we both imagined that I had only to conciliate this personage in order to be able to range free and undisturbed over the whole of Kilima-njaro.