The Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke  






 -  All the
property I had sent on in advance he had stored away; or rather,
I should say, as much - Page 122
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All The Property I Had Sent On In Advance He Had Stored Away; Or Rather, I Should Say, As Much As Had Reached Him, For The Road Expenses Had Eaten A Great Hole In It.

Once settled down into position, Sheikh Snay and the whole conclave of Arab merchants came to call on me.

They said they had an army of four hundred slaves armed with muskets ready to take the field at once to hunt down Manua Sera, who was cutting their caravan road to pieces, and had just seized, by their latest reports, a whole convoy of their ammunition. I begged them strongly to listen to reason, and accept my advice as an old soldier, not to carry on their guerilla warfare in such a headlong hurry, else they would be led a dance by Manua Sera, as we had been by Tantia Topee in India. I advised them to allow me to mediate between them, after telling them what a favourable interview I had had with Manua Sera and Maula, whose son was at that moment concealed in Musa's tembe. My advice, however, was not wanted. Snay knew better than any one how to deal with savages, and determined on setting out as soon as his army had "eaten their beef-feast of war."

On my questioning him about the Nile, Snay still thought the N'yanza was the source of the Jub river[FN#8] as he did in our former journey, but gave way when I told him that vessels frequented the Nile, as this also coincided with his knowledge of navigators in vessels appearing on some waters to the northward of Unyoro.

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