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plain, contains over a thousand tembes and huts, and boasts of a large 

 population. It was here that Speke and Burton dwelt for months 

 together, and afterwards both Speke and Grant. The luxuries of 

 Arabia, Egypt and Zanzibar are to be found in the Arabs' tembes, 

 which are large and handsome. These Arabs, who are nearly all rich 

 men, have imported everything they could need for an easy and lux- 

 urious life. Persian carpets, silver coffee services, wines and spices, 

 and last, but not least, extensive harems. They own large flocks and 

 herds, and numerous slaves, for household as well as trading purposes. 

 In his intercourse with the Arabs, Stanley found the services of Selim, 

 his interpreter, invaluable. 



At Tabora Stanley not only found his first, second and fourth 

 caravans, which he had despatched previously to his departure from 

 Bagamoyo, but also fell in with the caravan which Sir John Kirk, 

 British Consul at Zanzibar, had sent ofT, many months before, to 

 relieve Livingstone. When Stanley first landed at Bagamoyo, he had 

 found this caravan idling there, having been a hundred days searching 

 for the few pagazis required to carry the bales and goods destined 

 for Livingstone. Since the middle of May it had been ingloriously 

 resting at Tabora. Stanley secured the letters for Livingstone, which 

 the chief of the caravan had, and made it his business to look after 

 the goods. To this consideration on his part it is probably owing that 

 Livingstone ever received them at all. 



On the 20th of September the expedition set out, this time in 

 much reduced numbers. For the road was eminently dangerous, and 

 Stanley was determined not to be saddled with inefficient followers, 

 or a superfluity of baggage. The march to Ujiji was to be the work 

 of a "flying column," the impedimenta or the useless were to be left, 

 in more or less clover, at Unyanyembe. This was the program, though 

 it was with a doubtful heart that Stanley — worn to a shadow almost 

 by constantly recurring fevers — turned his steps towards the shores 

 of the Tanganyika. 



On the 3d of November, while encamped on the banks of the 

 Malagarazi, Stanley learned from the leaders of a caravan that a 

 white man, "old, with white hair on his face, and ill," had recently 

 arrived at Ujiji from Manyema, and that they had seen him as lately 



