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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My Hope Was, That It Might Be Possible, After The Defeat Of Mirambo,
And His Forest Banditti - The Ruga-Ruga - To Take My Expedition Direct
To Ujiji By The Road Now Closed.
The Arabs were sanguine of
victory, and I partook of their enthusiasm.
The council of war broke up. A great dishful of rice and curry,
in which almonds, citron, raisins, and currants were plentifully
mixed, was brought in, and it was wonderful how soon we forgot our
warlike fervor after our attention had been drawn to this royal
dish. I, of course, not being a Mohammedan, had a dish of my own,
of a similar composition, strengthened by platters containing
roast chicken, and kabobs, crullers, cakes, sweetbread, fruit,
glasses of sherbet and lemonade, dishes of gum-drops and Muscat
sweetmeats, dry raisins, prunes, and nuts. Certainly Khamis bin
Abdullah proved to me that if he had a warlike soul in him, he
could also attend to the cultivated tastes acquired under the shade
of the mangoes on his father's estates in Zanzibar - the island.
After gorging ourselves on these uncommon dainties some of the
chief Arabs escorted me to other tembes of Tabora. When we went
to visit Mussoud bin Abdullah, he showed me the very ground where
Burton and Speke's house stood - now pulled down and replaced
by his office - Sny bin Amer's house was also torn down, and the
fashionable tembe of Unyanyembe, now in vogue, built over
it, - finely-carved rafters - huge carved doors, brass knockers,
and lofty airy rooms - a house built for defence and comfort.
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