1500 " Henry rifle ammunition.
Cooking utensils, medicine chest, books, sextant, canvas bags, &c.,
&c., &c.
The above made a total of about forty loads. Many things in the
list would have brought fancy prices in Unyanyembe, especially
the carbines and ammunition, the saw, carpenter's tools the beads,
and wire. Out of the thirty-three loads which were stored for him
in my tembe - the stock sent to Livingstone, Nov. 1,1870 - but few
of them would be available for his return trip to Rua and Manyuema.
The 696 doti of cloth which were left to him formed the only
marketable articles of value he possessed; and in Manyuema, where
the natives manufactured their own cloth, such an article would be
considered a drug; while my beads and wire, with economy, would
suffice to keep him and his men over two years in those regions.
His own cloth, and what I gave him, made in the aggregate 1,393
doti, which, at 2 doti per day for food, were sufficient to keep
him and sixty men 696 days. He had thus four years' supplies.
The only articles he lacked to make a new and completely fitted-up
expedition were the following, a list of which he and I drew up; -
A few tins of American wheat-flour.
" " soda crackers.
" " preserved fruits
A few tins of salmon,
10 lbs. Hyson tea.
Some sewing thread and needles.
1 dozen official envelopes.
`Nautical Almanac' for 1872 and 1873.
1 blank journal.
1 chronometer, stopped.
1 chain for refractory people.
