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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With The Articles Just Named He Would Have A Total Of Seventy
Loads, But Without Carriers They Were An Incumbrance To Him; For,
With Only The Nine Men Which He Now Had, He Could Go Nowhere With
Such A Splendid Assortment Of Goods.
I was therefore commissioned
to enlist, - as soon as I reached Zanzibar, - fifty freemen, arm them
with a gun and hatchet each man, besides accoutrements, and to
purchase two thousand bullets, one thousand flints, and ten kegs of
gunpowder.
The men were to act as carriers, to follow wherever
Livingstone might desire to go. For, without men, he was simply
tantalized with the aspirations roused in him by the knowledge
that he had abundance of means, which were irrealizable without
carriers. All the wealth of London and New York piled before him
were totally unavailable to him without the means of locomotion.
No Mnyamwezi engages himself as carrier during war-time. You who
have read the diary of my 'Life in Unyanyembe' know what stubborn
Conservatives the Wanyamwezi are. A duty lay yet before me which
I owed to my illustrious companion, and that was to hurry to the
coast as if on a matter of life and death - act for him in the matter
of enlisting men as if he were there himself - to work for him with
the same zeal as I would for myself - not to halt or rest until his
desires should be gratified, And this I vowed to do; but it was
a death-blow to my project of going down the Nile, and getting
news of Sir S. Baker.
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