When able to walk he joined a kafifila going east. For about a month
they got on very well ; passing through several populous countries, until
at last, while fording a broad stream, the kafifila was attacked by a party
of armed negroes. The Mohammedan members of it were killed or dis-
persed, and the KafRrs were seized as slaves. Great was Enphadde's joy
when he found that his captors were marching him to the southeast. In
fact, what seemed at first a misfortune, proved the safest and most direct
means of his restoration to his own country.
Three weeks' travel brought him and his masters to a large town.
Here he was exposed in the socco and immediately purchased by a slave-
dealer, who put him, with others, on board of a large canoe and ascended
(five or six days' journey) a stream running from the east. They then
landed, and striking off through a hilly country in a southerly course,
arrived in fifteen days at a small walled town named Bemme.
