Your obedient,
GRANVILLE.
Henry Stanley, Esq.
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Foreign Office, August 27.
SIR,
I have great satisfaction in conveying to you, by command of the
Queen, her Majesty's high appreciation of the prudence and zeal
which you have displayed in opening a communication with Dr.
Livingstone, and relieving her Majesty from the anxiety which,
in common with her subjects, she had felt in regard to the fate
of that distinguished traveller.
The Queen desires me to express her thanks for the service you have
thus rendered, together with her Majesty's congratulations on your
having so successfully carried on the mission which you fearlessly
undertook. Her Majesty also desires me to request your acceptance
of the memorial which accompanies this letter.
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
GRANVILLE
GLOSSARY.
Boma . . . . . . . enclosure.
Bubu . . . . . . . black beads.
Diwan . . . . . . elder, chief, or magistrate.
Doti . . . . . . four yards of cloth.
Dowa . . . . . . medicine.
Fundo . . . . . . ten necklaces, or ten khetes.
Ghulabio . . . . . a species of bead.
Hafde . . . . . a species of bead.
Hamal . . . . . carrier.
Honga . . . . . tribute.
Ismahili . . . . . a native name for a particular kind of cloth.
Kadunguru . . . . . a brick-coloured species of bead.
Kaif-Halek . . . . "How do you do?"
Kaniki . . . . a blue cloth manufactured in India.
Knambi . . . . camp.
Khete . . . . one necklace, or a tenth of a fundo.
