How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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The Arabs Who Now Stood Before The Front Door Of My Tembe Were The
Donors Of The Good Things Received The Day Before.
As in duty
bound, of course, I greeted Sheikh Sayd first, then Sheikh bin
Nasib, his Highness of Zanzibar's
Consul at Karagwa, then I greeted
the noblest Trojan amongst the Arab population, noblest in bearing,
noblest in courage and manly worth - Sheikh Khamis bin Abdullah;
then young Amram bin Mussoud, who is now making war on the king of
Urori and his fractious people; then handsome, courageous Soud,
the son of Sayd bin Majid; then dandified Thani bin Abdullah; then
Mussoud bin Abdullah and his cousin Abdullah bin Mussoud, who own
the houses where formerly lived Burton and Speke; then old
Suliman Dowa, Sayd bin Sayf, and the old Hetman of Tabora - Sheikh
Sultan bin Ali.
As the visit of these magnates, under whose loving protection white
travellers must needs submit themselves, was only a formal one,
such as Arab etiquette, ever of the stateliest and truest, impelled
them to, it is unnecessary to relate the discourse on my health,
and their wealth, my thanks, and their professions of loyalty, and
attachment to me. After having expended our mutual stock of
congratulations and nonsense, they departed, having stated their
wish that I should visit them at Tabora and partake of a feast
which they were about to prepare for me.
Three days afterwards I sallied out of my tembe, escorted by
eighteen bravely dressed men of my escort, to pay Tabora a
visit.
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