196 STANLEY FINDS THE LOST EXPLORER. 



"We will, master, we will, master!" respond the men eagerly. 



"One, two, three, — fire!" 



A volley from nearly fifty guns roars like a salute from a bat- 

 tery of artillery; we shall note its efYect presently on the peaceful- 

 looking village below. 



"Now, kirangozi, hold the white man's flag up high, and let 

 the Zanzibar fiag bring up the rear. And you men keep close 

 together, and keep firing until we halt in the market-place, or before 

 the white man's house. You have said to me often that you could 

 smell the fish of the Tanganyika — I can smell the fish of the Tan- 

 ganyika now. There are fish, and beer, and a long rest waiting for 

 you. March!" 



OUR VOLLEYS HAD AWAKENED UJIJI. 



Before we had gone a hundred yards our repeated volleys had 

 the effect desired. We had awakened Ujiji to the knowledge that 

 a caravan was coming, and the people were witnessed rushing up 

 in hundreds to meet us. The mere sight of the fiags informed 

 every one immediately that we were a caravan, but the American 

 flag borne aloft by gigantic Asmani, whose face was one vast smile 

 on this day, rather staggered them at first. However, many of the 

 people who now approached us, remembered the fiag. They had 

 seen it float above the American Consulate, and from the mast-head 

 of many a ship in the harbor of Zanzibar, and they were soon heard 

 welcoming the beautiful flag with cries of "Bindera Kisungu!" — 

 a white man's flag! "Bindera Merikani!" — the American flag! 



Then we were surrounded by them and were almost deafened 

 with the shouts of "Yambo, yambo, bana! Y^ambo, bana! Yambo, 

 banft !" To each and all of my men the welcome was given. 



We were now about three hundred yards from the' village of 

 LJjiji, and the crowds are dense about me. Suddenly I hear a voice 

 on my right say, 



"Good morning, sir!" 



Startled at hearing this greeting in the midst of such a crowd 

 of black people, I turn sharply around in search of the man, and 

 see him at my side, with the blackest of faces, but animated and 



