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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It is far preferable in
every sense to that of Zanzibar.
We were able to sleep in the
open air, and rose refreshed and healthy each morning, to enjoy
our matutinal bath in the sea; and by the time the sun had risen
we were engaged in various preparations for our departure for the
interior. Our days were enlivened by visits from the Arabs who
were also bound for Unyanyembe; by comical scenes in the camp;
sometimes by court-martials held on the refractory; by a
boxing-match between Farquhar and Shaw, necessitating my prudent
interference when they waxed too wroth; by a hunting excursion
now and then to the Kingani plain and river; by social
conversation with the old Jemadar and his band of Baluches, who
were never tired of warning me that the Masika was at hand, and of
advising me that my best course was to hurry on before the season
for travelling expired.
Among the employees with the Expedition were two Hindi and two
Goanese. They had conceived the idea that the African interior
was an El Dorado, the ground of which was strewn over with ivory
tusks, and they had clubbed together; while their imaginations
were thus heated, to embark in a little enterprise of their own.
Their names were Jako, Abdul Kader, Bunder Salaam, and Aranselar;
Jako engaged in my service, as carpenter and general help; Abdul
Kader as a tailor, Bunder Salaam as cook, and Aranselar as chief
butler.
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