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niatama and grain, and herds of cattle and flocks of sheep. Crowds of 

 men, women and children came together to see the Musmigu (white 

 men), who were subjected to the minutest examination, regardless of 

 any personal feelings they may have had on the subject. But in face 

 of the plentiful supplies which came pouring in, in exchange for dofi 

 of cloth and necklaces of beads, such excessive interest in their per- 

 sons did not affect the Musungu. Indian corn, matama, honey, ghee 

 (butter), beans, peanuts, watermelons, pumpkins and cucumbers, to- 

 gether with milk, were among the supplies which the country afforded ; 

 and what was of still greater satisfaction to the purchasers, the people 

 themselves were easily satisfied as to the price. ' Far different was it 

 with the Wagogo chiefs. The extortionate demands of Shylock paled 

 before those which the chiefs of the many villages, through which the 

 expedition passed, required Stanley to pay as tribute. 



The expedition was now marching in a northwesterly direction, 

 right on Unyanyembe. Marching as rapidly as possible, by June 27, 

 Stanley sighted the suburbs of Tabora, and with guns firing, flags 

 flying, and the soldiers and carriers dressed in their bravest loin- 

 cloths, on the same day he made his entry, and the long march of the 

 carriers hired at Bagamoyo came to an end. 



Unyanyembe is the central district of the great country Uny- 

 amwezi, the most important and fertile country in the whole of that 

 part of Central and Eastern Africa. It is a vast table-land, sloping 

 in gentle undulations towards Lake Tanganyika, into which the coun- 

 try chiefly drains. The mountainous character of Usagara is wanting, 

 as well as the fertile plains of Ugogo; but in their place league upon 

 league of purple forests roll away into the hazy distance, and wide 

 stretches of pasture, on which ten thousand flocks are grazing, sep- 

 arate these forest belts. A dozen powerful states are contained within 

 this region, and the supremacy is continually passing from one state 

 to another. The people of this great country, the Wanyamwezi, carry 

 off the palm among the people of Central Africa. They are well 

 developed and intelligent, enterprising and industrious, good traders 

 and travelers. They are the inter-tribal porters of the continent, the 

 prop of the Arab caravans, the reliance of the white man. 



Tabora, which is situated in the midst of an extremely fertile 



