Consul. - " Yes, thank you. How is His Highness?"
Highness. - "Quite well!"
Highness to me. - "Are you well?"
Answer. - "Quite well, thanks!"
The Consul now introduces business; and questions about my travels
follow from His Highness -
"How do you like Persia?"
"Have you seen Kerbela, Bagdad, Masr, Stamboul?"
"Have the Turks many soldiers?"
"How many has Persia?"
"Is Persia fertile?"
"How do you like Zanzibar?"
Having answered each question to his Highness' satisfaction, he
handed me letters of introduction to his officers at Bagamoyo and
Kaole, and a general introductory letter to all Arab merchants
whom I might meet on the road, and concluded his remarks to me,
with the expressed hope, that on whatever mission I was bound,
I should be perfectly successful.
We bowed ourselves out of his presence in much the same manner that
we had bowed ourselves in, he accompanying us to the great entrance
door.
Mr. Goodhue of Salem, an American merchant long resident in
Zanzibar, presented me, as I gave him my adieu, with a blooded bay
horse, imported from the Cape of Good Hope, and worth, at least at
Zanzibar, $500.
Feb. 4. - By the 4th of February, twenty-eight days from the date
of my arrival at Zanzibar, the organization and equipment of the
"`New York Herald' Expedition" was complete; tents and saddles had
been manufactured, boats and sails were ready. The donkeys brayed,
and the horses neighed impatiently for the road.
