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are the right ones ; in fact, the only ones which can be 

 looked back to with satisfaction, or that have probability of 

 success among a race of Pariah Arabs. 



The Penguin came a few days ago, and Lieutenant Gar- 

 forth in command agrees to take me down to the Bovunia 

 Eiver, and land me there. I have a dhow to take my 

 animals : six camels, three buffaloes, and a calf, two mules, 

 and four donkeys. I have thirteen Sepoys, ten Johanna 

 men, nine Nassick boys, two Shupanga men, and two 

 Wayaus, Wekatani and Chuma.* 



[It may be well to point out that several of these men 

 had previously been employed by Dr. Livingstone on the 

 Zambesi and Shire ; thus Musa, the Johanna man, was a 

 sailor on the Lady Nyassa, whilst Susi and Amoda were 

 engaged at Shupanga to cut wood for the Pioneer. The 

 two Waiyau lads, Wakatani and Chuma, were liberated 

 from the slavers by the Doctor and Bishop Mackenzie in 

 1861, and lived for three years with the Mission party at 

 Chibisa's before they were engaged by Livingstone. The 

 Nassick lads were entire strangers, and were trained in 

 India.] 



19$ March. — 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. 



22nd March. — We reached Eovuma Bay to-day, and 

 anchored about two miles from the mouth of the river, in 

 five fathoms. I went up the left bank to see if the gullies 

 which formerly ran into the bay had altered, so as to 

 allow camels to cross them: they seemed to have become 



* Dhow is the name given to the coasting vessel of East Africa and the 

 Indian Ocean. 



