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that their lower limbs might be examined, and a stick was 

 tossed for the slave to bring that he might exhibit his paces. 

 Others were dragged through the crowd by the hand, while the 

 price was incessantly called out. The purchasers of these un- 

 happy beings were mostly northern Arabs and Persians." 



But entertaining as the scenes of that strange city must be to 

 an intelligent traveller, Dr. Livingstone walked its streets with 

 heart and mind absorbed with a greater work than that of an 

 ordinary observer, and every moment of time spent in Zanzibar 

 was coveted for the dearer work he had to do in the heart of the 

 great continent whose dark outline was only a few miles away. 



Having finally arranged with Koorje, a Banyan, to send a 

 supply of beads, cloth, flour, tea, coffee, and sugar, to Ujiji, on 

 Lake Taganyika, to the care of an Arab living there, called 

 Thani bin Suelim, and having perfected other arrangements for 

 his journey, Livingstone took leave of the generous sultan and 

 other friends on the island. He had secured a dhow, one of the 

 coasting vessels of East Africa, for transporting the animals for 

 the expedition ; of these there were six camels, three buffaloes 

 and a calf, two mules and four donkeys. His attendants were 

 thirteen Sepoys, ten Johanna men, nine Nassick boys, two Shu- 

 panga men, and Wakalani and Chuma, two Wayans, boys who 

 had been liberated from the slavers by the doctor and Bishop 

 Mackenzie in 1861, and had spent three years with the mission 

 party at Chibisa. Several others of the men had been with Dr. 

 Livingstone in his former expeditions. Musa, a Johanna man, 

 was a sailor on the " Lady Nyassa Susi," and Amoda had ren- 

 dered service on the " Pioneer." The Nassick lads were all entire 

 strangers, and had been trained in India. 



By the kindness of Lieutenant Garforth, the doctor and his 

 followers were offered passage to the mouth of the Rovuma in 

 the ship " Penguin," and under date of March 1 9th, 1 866, we find 

 the opening entrance in the journal of this expedition, toward 

 which the eyes of the world turned so long and anxiously, in a 

 few words full of the spirit of the great and good man : " We 

 start this morning at 10 a. m. I trust that the Most High may 

 prosper me in this work, granting me influence in the eyes of 

 the heathen, and helping me to make my intercourse beneficial 

 to them." 



