646 IN MARCHING ORDER. 



been requested to serve him, by Tarya Topan, a wealthy 

 merchant of Zanzibar. By the cooperation of this man, the 

 goods were finally all on the way to Unyanyembe. It had not 

 been thought wise for a large number of people, with so much 

 property, to set out in a single company. They had, therefore, 

 been separated into five distinct caravans, starting at different 

 times, so as to put some days between them, Mr. Stanley him- 

 self bringing up the rear of the last caravan, which moved 

 away from Bagamoyo on the 21st of March, exactly seventy- 

 three days after he had landed on the coast. 



The expedition could hardly have been more thoroughly or- 

 ganized or furnished. There were in all "three white men, 

 twenty-three soldiers, four supernumeraries, four chiefs, and one 

 hundred and fifty-three pagazis, twenty-seven donkeys, and one 

 cart; conveying cloth, beads, and wire, boat-fixings, tents, 

 cooking utensils, and dishes; medicine, powder, small shot, 

 musket balls, and metallic cartridges, instruments and small 

 necessaries, such as soap, sugar, tea, coffee, Liebig's extract of 

 meat, pemmican, candles, etc., making in all one hundred and 

 fifty-three loads. The weapons of defence which the expedi- 

 tion possessed consisted of one double-barrel breech-loading 

 gun, smooth bore ; one American Winchester rifle, or sixteen- 

 shooter; one Henry rifle, also a sixteen-shooter; two Starr's 

 breech-loaders, one Jocelyn breech-loader, one elephant rifle, 

 carrying balls eight to the pound ; two breech-loading revolv- 

 ers, twenty-four muskets (flint locks), six six-barrelled pistols, 

 one battle-axe, two swords,' two daggers (Persian Kummers), 

 purchased by Mr. Stanley at Shiraz, one boar shear, two Ameri- 

 can axes, four pounds each, twenty -four hatchets, and twenty- 

 four butcher knives. Nothing had been stinted, everything 

 was provided. Nothing had been done hurriedly, yet every- 

 thing had been purchased, manufactured, collected, and com- 

 pounded with the utmost despatch, consistent with efficiency and 

 means." The success or failure depended, under God, on the 

 one man who rode behind the last caravan, " the vanguard, 

 the thinker, the will of the expedition." 



We cannot record in detail the adventures of Mr. Stanley or 

 the incidents of his journey to Ujiji. The reader who has not 

 had occasion to notice carefully the routes of the different trav- 



