STANLEY FINDS 1 HE LOST EXPLORER. liOl 



Oh, reader, had you been at my side on this day in Ujiji, how 

 eloquently could be t(*ld the nature of this man's work! Had you 

 been there but to see and hear! His lips gave me the details; lips 

 that never lie. I cannot repeat vvhat he said; I was too much 

 engrossed to take my note-book out, and begin to stenograph his 

 story. He had so much to say that he began at the end, seemingly 

 oblivious of the fact that five or six years had to be accounted for. 

 But his account was oozing out; it was growing fast into grand 

 proportions — into a most marvellous history of deeds. 



The Arabs rose up, with a delicacy I approved, as if they intui- 

 tivel}^ knew that we ought to be left to ourselves. 



WELCOME LETTERS AFTER YEARS OF V/AITING. 



I sent Bombay ^^•ith them to give them the news they also 

 wanted so much to know about tlie affairs at Unyanyembe. Sayd 

 bin Majid was the father of the gallant young man whom I saw at 

 Masangi, and who fought with me at Zimbizo, and who soon after- 

 vv-ards was killed by Mirambo's Ruga- Ruga in the forest of Wilyan- 

 kuru; and, knowing tliat I had been there, he earnestly desired to 

 hear the tale of the ivjhl: but they had all friends at Unyanyembe, 

 and it was but natural that they should be anxious to hear of what 

 concerned them. 



After giving orders to Bombay and As-mani for the provision- 

 ing of the men of the Expedition, I called "Kaif-Halek," or "How- 

 do-ye-do,'* and introduced him to Dr. Livingstone as one of the 

 soldiers in charge of certain goods left at Un3^anyembe, whom I had 

 compelled to accompany me to Ujiji, that he might deliver in person 

 to his master the letter-bag with which he had been intrusted. This 

 was that famous letter-bag marked "Nov. ist, 1870," which was 

 now delivered into the doctor's hands 365 days after it left Zanzi- 

 bar ! How long, I wonder, had it remained at Unyanyembe had 1 

 not been despatched into Central Africa in search of the great 

 traveller ? 



The doctor kept the letter-bag on iiis knee, then, presently, 

 opened it, looked at the letters contained there, and read one or two 

 of his children's letters, his face in the meanwhile lighting up. 



