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Speke's chronometer watch (on which he depended 

 for Greenwich mean time to find the longitude as he 

 travelled) had stopped, owing to a slight defect in 

 the hair-spring, which defect I was able to remedy, 

 and started him with a correct error on Greenwich 

 mean time. 



The landing at Zanzibar is thus described by Speke : 

 " The Hottentots, the mules, and the baggage having 

 been landed, our preparatory work began in earnest. 

 It consisted in proving the sextants ; rating the 

 watches ; examining the compasses and boiling 

 thermometers ; making tents and packsaddles ; order- 

 ing supplies of beads, cloth, and brass wire ; and 

 collecting servants and porters." 



In Speke's Journal, it is interesting to note, a lively 

 account is given of how during the voyage the Brisk 

 captured a ship-rigged slaver freighted with over five 

 hundred old women and children, who had been 

 captured during the wars in their own country and 

 sold to the Arabs. Admiral de Horsey 's version of 

 that exciting incident is as follows : 



As the Manuela, formerly the Sunny South, of 

 Boston, was, I believe, the largest and finest slave 

 ship, and contained the greatest number of slaves en 

 record in a single ship, it may be of interest to state 

 that that beautiful American clipper of 702 tons, at 

 the time of her capture, was victualled for 102 days 

 for the voyage from East Africa to Cuba, and con- 

 tained 846 men, women, boy and girl slaves, each one 

 of whom I saw counted and registered as they were 

 brought up from the slave deck. Her crew consisted 

 of captain, three mates, doctor, pilot, carpenter, and 

 boatswain, and 40 Spanish men of ruffianly appear- 



