On the 222nd of February, the pouring rain, which had dogged us
the entire distance from Ujiji, ceased, and we had now beautiful
weather; and while I prepared for the homeward march, the Doctor
was busy writing his letters, and entering his notes into his
journal, which I was to take to his family. When not thus
employed, we paid visits to the Arabs at Tabora, by whom we were
both received with that bounteous hospitality for which they are
celebrated.
Among the goods turned over by me to Dr. Livingstone, while
assorting such cloths as I wished to retain for my homeward trip,
were -
Doti. Yards.
First-class American sheeting . . . 285 = 1140
" Kaniki (blue stuff) . . . 16 = 64
Medium " (blue stuff) . . . 60 = 240
" Dabwani cloth . . . . 41 = 64
Barsati cloths . . . . 28 = 112
Printed handkerchiefs . . 70 = 280
Medium Rehani cloth . . . . . 127 = 508
" Ismahili " . . . . 20 = 80
" Sohari " . . . . . 20 = 80
4 pieces fine Kungura (red check) 22 = 88
4 gorah Rehani . . . . . . . 8 = 32
Total number of cloths . 697 = 2788
Besides:
Cloth, 2788 yards.
Assorted beads, 16 sacks, weight = 992 lbs.
Brass wire, Nos. 5 and 6; 10 fraslilah = 350 lbs.
1 canvas tent, waterproof.
1 air-bed.
1 boat (canvas}
1 bag of tools, carpenter's.
1 rip saw.
2 barrels of tar.
12 sheets of ship's copper = 60 lbs.
Clothes.
1 Jocelyn breech-loader (metallic cartridge).
1 Starr's " " "
1 Henry (16-shooter) " "
1 revolver.
200 rounds revolver ammunition.
2000 " Jocelyn and Starrs ammunition.
1500 " Henry rifle ammunition.
Cooking utensils, medicine chest, books, sextant, canvas bags, &c.,
&c., &c.
The above made a total of about forty loads. Many things in the
list would have brought fancy prices in Unyanyembe, especially
the carbines and ammunition, the saw, carpenter's tools the beads,
and wire. Out of the thirty-three loads which were stored for him
in my tembe - the stock sent to Livingstone, Nov. 1,1870 - but few
of them would be available for his return trip to Rua and Manyuema.
The 696 doti of cloth which were left to him formed the only
marketable articles of value he possessed; and in Manyuema, where
the natives manufactured their own cloth, such an article would be
considered a drug; while my beads and wire, with economy, would
suffice to keep him and his men over two years in those regions.
His own cloth, and what I gave him, made in the aggregate 1,393
doti, which, at 2 doti per day for food, were sufficient to keep
him and sixty men 696 days. He had thus four years' supplies.
The only articles he lacked to make a new and completely fitted-up
expedition were the following, a list of which he and I drew up; -
A few tins of American wheat-flour.
" " soda crackers.
" " preserved fruits
A few tins of salmon,
10 lbs.
