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themselves (ivory), have done their best to keep 

 everybody away from the interior. I say short- 

 sighted, for it is obvious that, were the resources of 

 the country once fairly opened, the people on the 

 coast would double or triple their present incomes, 

 and Zanzibar would soon swell into a place of real 

 importance. All hands would then be employed, 

 and luxury would take the place of beggary. 



"We left Ulekampuri at 1 A.M. on the 25th, and 

 marched the last eighteen miles into Kaze under the 

 delightful influence of a cool night and a bright full 

 moon. As the caravan, according to its usual march 

 of single file, moved along the serpentine footpath in 

 peristaltic motion, firing muskets and singing "the 

 return," the Unyanyembe villagers, men, women, and 

 children, came running out and flocking on it, piercing 

 the air with loud shrill noises, accompanied with the 

 lullabooing of these fairs, which, once heard, can never 

 be mistaken. The crowd was composed in great part 

 of the relatives of my porters, who evinced their feel- 

 ings towards their adult masters as eagerly as stray 

 deer do in running to join a long-missing herd. The 

 Arabs, one and all, came out to meet us, and escorted 

 us into their depot. Their congratulations were 

 extremely warm, for they had been anxious for our 

 safety in consequence of sundry rumours abroad con- 

 cerning the war-parties which lay in my track. Cap- 

 tain Burton greeted me on arrival at the old house, 

 where I had the satisfaction of finding him greatly 



