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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Having bartered drafts on Mr. James Gordon Bennett to the amount
of several thousand dollars for cloth, beads, wire, donkeys, and
a thousand necessaries, having advanced pay to the white men, and
black escort of the Expedition, having fretted Capt.
Webb and his
family more than enough with the din of preparation, and filled
his house with my goods, there was nothing further to do but to
leave my formal adieus with the Europeans, and thank the Sultan
and those gentlemen who had assisted me, before embarking for
Bagamoyo.
The day before my departure from Zanzibar the American Consul,
having just habited himself in his black coat, and taking with him
an extra black hat, in order to be in state apparel, proceeded with
me to the Sultan's palace. The prince had been generous to me;
he had presented me with an Arab horse, had furnished me with
letters of introduction to his agents, his chief men, and
representatives in the interior, and in many other ways had
shown himself well disposed towards me.
The palace is a large, roomy, lofty, square house close to the
fort, built of coral, and plastered thickly with lime mortar.
In appearance it is half Arabic and half Italian. The shutters
are Venetian blinds painted a vivid green, and presenting a
striking contrast to the whitewashed walls. Before the great,
lofty, wide door were ranged in two crescents several Baluch and
Persian mercenaries, armed with curved swords and targes of
rhinoceros hide.
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