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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The Sixth Box
Contained Four Shirts, Two Pairs Of Stout Shoes, Some Stockings And
Shoe-Strings, Which Delighted The Doctor
So much when he tried them
on that he exclaimed, "Richard is himself again!" "That man," said
I, "whoever he
Is, is a friend, indeed." "Yes, that is my friend
Waller."
The five other boxes contained potted meat and soups; but the
twelfth, containing one dozen bottles of medicinal brandy, was
gone;and a strict cross-examination of Asmani, the head man of
Livingstone's caravan, elicited the fact, that not only was one
case of brandy missing, but also two bales of cloth and four bags
of the most valuable beads in Africa - sami-sami - which are as gold
with the natives.
I was grievously disappointed after the stores had been examined;
everything proved to be deceptions in my jaundiced eyes. Out of
the tins of biscuits when opened, there was only one sound box;
the whole of which would not make one full meal. The soups - who
cared for meat soups in Africa? Are there no bullocks, and sheep,
and goats in the land, from which far better soup can be made than
any that was ever potted? Peas, or any other kind of vegetable
soup, would have been a luxury; but chicken and game soups! - what
nonsense!
I then overhauled my own stores. I found some fine old brandy
and one bottle of champagne still left; though it was evident,
in looking at the cloth bales, that dishonesty had been at work;
and some person happened to suggest Asmani - the head man sent by
Dr. Kirk in charge of Livingstone's goods - as the guilty party.
Upon his treasures being examined, I found eight or ten coloured
cloths, with the mark of my own agent at Zanzibar on them.
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