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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If He Should Elect To Go Home, I Informed Him I Should
Be Proud To Escort Him, And Consider Myself Subject To His
Commands - Travelling Only When He Desired, And Camping Only When
He Gave The Word.
6th. The last course which I suggested to him, was to permit me to
escort him to Unyanyembe, where
He could receive his own goods,
and where I could deliver up to him a large supply of first-class
cloth and beads, guns and ammunition, cooking utensils, clothing,
boats, tents, &c., and where he could rest in a comfortable house,
while I would hurry down to the coast, organise a new expedition
composed of fifty or sixty faithful men, well armed, by whom I
could send an additional supply of needful luxuries in the shape
of creature comforts.
After long consideration, he resolved to adopt the last course,
as it appeared to him to be the most feasible one, and the best,
though he did not hesitate to comment upon the unaccountable apathy
of his agent at Zanzibar, which had caused him so much trouble and
vexation, and weary marching of hundreds of miles.
Our ship - though nothing more than a cranky canoe hollowed out of
a noble mvule tree of Ugoma - was an African Argo bound on a nobler
enterprise than its famous Grecian prototype. We were bound upon
no mercenary errand, after no Golden Fleece, but perhaps to
discover a highway for commerce which should bring the ships of
the Nile up to Ujiji, Usowa, and far Marungu.
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