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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"Aliekum
Salaam," I Replied, With All The Gravity I Could Muster.
I then
informed him I required him as captain of my soldiers to Ujiji.
His reply was that he was ready to do whatever I told him, go
wherever I liked in short, be a pattern to servants, and a model
to soldiers.
He hoped I would give him a uniform, and a good gun,
both of which were promised.
Upon inquiring for the rest of the "Faithfuls" who accompanied
Speke into Egypt, I was told that at Zanzibar there were but six.
Ferrajji, Maktub, Sadik, Sunguru, Manyu, Matajari, Mkata, and
Almas, were dead; Uledi and Mtamani were in Unyanyembe; Hassan
had gone to Kilwa, and Ferahan was supposed to be in Ujiji.
Out of the six "Faithfuls," each of whom still retained his medal
for assisting in the "Discovery of the Sources of the Nile," one,
poor Mabruki, had met with a sad misfortune, which I feared would
incapacitate him from active usefulness.
Mabruki the "Bull-headed," owned a shamba (or a house with a garden
attached to it), of which he was very proud. Close to him lived a
neighbour in similar circumstances, who was a soldier of Seyd
Majid, with whom Mabruki, who was of a quarrelsome disposition, had
a feud, which culminated in the soldier inducing two or three of
his comrades to assist him in punishing the malevolent Mabruki, and
this was done in a manner that only the heart of an African could
conceive.
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