668 Stanley's house. 



As the visitor walked beside the governor toward Kwikuru he 

 " received a noiseless ovation." The Wanyarnwezi pagazi were 

 out by hundreds, and the warriors of old Mkasiwa hovered 

 about their chief; the naked, dusky children standing between 

 their parents' legs, even infants slung over their mothers' backs, 

 all paid the tribute due to his color in one grand concentrated 

 stare. Having been hospitably refreshed with a breakfast which 

 went as far as any breakfast could have done towards making 

 him forget that he was in the wilds of Africa, and quite a con- 

 versation with the lordly Sayd, he was escorted by that digni- 

 tary to Kwihara, where his house had been provided. Gathered 

 about the door of the tembe he found the men of his expedition. 

 They had stacked their bales, and piled their boxes, and the 

 members of the different caravans were using their tongues with 

 marvellous energy, exchanging with each other the incidents of 

 their journey. 



Some delay is always expected at Unyanyembe, and porters, 

 whether hired upon the coast or on Tanganyika lake, are ac- 

 customed to disperse there, and a fresh gang must be collected. 

 Mr. Stanley's first duty, therefore, was to receive the reports of 

 the leaders of his caravans, and bestow such rewards or make 

 such payments as occasion required, and the crowd scattered 

 and left him with his little band of special followers to take 

 possession of his new quarters, which he declares was a "most 

 comfortable place." There were quarters for his men and for 

 himself; sitting-room, bed-room, bath-room, cook-house, store- 

 house, prison, etc., etc. He had hardly accomplished the dis- 

 position of his goods in spaces designed for them, and paid off 

 his carriers, and begun to realize that he might under proper 

 circumstances have an appetite, when in came several slaves in 

 succession, " bearing trays, full of good things from the Arabs: 

 first, an enormous dish of rice, with a bowlful of curried chicken; 

 another with a dozen huge wheaten cakes, another with a plate- 

 ful of smoking hot crullers, another with papaws, another with 

 pomegranates and lemons; after these came men driving five 

 fat hump-backed oxen, eight sheep, and ten goats, and another 

 man came with a dozen chickens and a dozen fresh eggs." No 

 wonder he was taken by storm, with such real, practical, noble 

 courtesy, such munificent hospitality ; and we are prepared to 



