CHAPTER XXIX. 



Stanley marches from Bagamoyo to Mpwapwa — Through Northern TJgogo — Coun- 

 try of Urimi — Death of Edward Pocock — Conflict with the Waturu — Iramba 

 — Arrival at Lake Victoria Nyama — Exploration of the Lake — Visit to 

 Mtesa, King of Uganda — Iftesa's Conversion to Islamism — Desire for Chris- 

 tian Teachers — Lnterview between Colonel de Bellefond and Stanley — Stanley's 

 Departure from Uganda — Lake Victoria Nyama an Lnland Sea — Meetings of 

 the Royal Geographical Society. 



WE left Mr. Stanley about to plunge into the African wilderness, full of 

 heart and hope. Since then he has been heard from again and again. 

 From the district Mpwapwa, in the country of Usagaru, he wrote under date, 

 December 13th, 1874, saying that he had had an unprecedentedly successful 

 march from the Indian Ocean, and that surprisingly favourable influences had 

 attended the Expedition ever since their departure from Zanzibar. They had 

 suffered less sickness, less trouble, and altogether had had more good fortune 

 than any Expedition which had ever come into Africa. The march from 

 Bagamoyo to the place from which he was writing had only taken him twenty- 

 five days, although, on his previous Expedition in search of Livingstone, the 

 same march took him fifty-seven days ; and it occupied Lieutenant Cameron's 

 party four months. The outset of the Expedition was not very favourable, 

 as nearly all the attendants were overcome by intoxication at Zanzibar ; and, 

 after disembarking at Bagamoyo, matters were not mended much. The men 

 had not as yet expended all their advance, and the consequence was, that 

 they betook themselves into the liquor shops of the Groanese at the port, and, 

 after brutalising themselves with the fire-water retailed there, they took to 

 swaggering through the streets, proclaiming that they were white men's 

 soldiers, maltreating women, breaking into shops and smashing crockery, some 

 even drawing knives on the peaceable citizens, and in other ways indulging 

 their worst passions. 



The march was resumed, however, on the fifth day ; and, on arriving at 

 the Kingani River, Stanley screwed together the sections of the " Lady 

 Alice," and tested her powers of transportation and efficiency. He ascertained 

 that the utmost she could bear in ferrying across the river was thirty men 

 and thirty bales of cloth, or a weight of three tons, which was perfectly satisfac- 

 tory to him. The " Livingstone" pontoon was not uncovered, as the " Lady 

 Alice" proved expeditious enough in transporting the force across the river. 

 When the ferriage was completed they resumed the journey, and long before 



