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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In This Extremity I Remembered The Promise Made To Me
By The Great Merchant Of Zanzibar - Tarya Topan - A Mohammedan
Hindi - that he would furnish me with a letter to a young man named
Soor Hadji Palloo, who was said
To be the best man in Bagamoyo to
procure a supply of pagazis.
I despatched my Arab interpreter by a dhow to Zanzibar, with a
very earnest request to Capt. Webb that he would procure from
Tarya Topan the introductory letter so long delayed. It was the
last card in my hand.
On the third day the Arab returned, bringing with him not only
the letter to Soor Hadji Palloo, but an abundance of good things
from the ever-hospitable house of Mr. Webb. In a very short time
after the receipt of his letter, the eminent young man Soor Hadji
Palloo came to visit me, and informed me he had been requested by
Tarya Topan to hire for me one hundred and forty pagazis to
Unyanyembe in the shortest time possible. This he said would be
very expensive, for there were scores of Arabs and Wasawabili
merchants on the look out for every caravan that came in from the
interior, and they paid 20 doti, or 80 yards of cloth, to each
pagazi. Not willing or able to pay more, many of these merchants
had been waiting as long as six months before they could get their
quota. "If you," continued he, "desire to depart quickly, you
must pay from 25 to 40 doti, and I can send you off before one
month is ended.
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