For Myself, I Believe In
This Opinion, As He No Sooner Asked Me How I Could Account For
The Phenomenon I Have Already Mentioned Of The River Appearing To
Decrease In Bulk As We Descended It, Than I Instinctively
Advanced His Own Theory.
Moreover, the same hypothesis will
answer for the sluggish flooding of the Nile down to Egypt.
I hope the reader who has followed my narrative thus far will be
interested in knowing how "my faithful children," for whose
services I had no further occasion, and whom I had taken so far
from their own country, were disposed of. At Cairo, where we put
up in Shepherd's Hotel, I had the whole of them photographed, and
indulged them at the public concerts, tableaux vivants, etc. By
invitation, we called on the Viceroy at his Rhoda Island palace,
and were much gratified with the reception; for, after hearing
all our stories with marked intelligence, he most graciously
offered to assist me in any other undertaking which would assist
to open up and develop the interior of Africa.
I next appointed Bombay captain of the "faithfuls," and gave him
three photographs of all the eighteen men and three more of the
four women, to give one of each to our Consuls at Suez, Aden, and
Zanzibar, by which they might be recognised. I also gave them
increased wages, equal to three years' pay each, by orders on
Zanzibar, which was one in addition to their time of service; an
order for a grand "freeman's garden," to be purchased for them at
Zanzibar; and an order that each one should receive ten dollars
dowry-money as soon as he could find a wife.
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