704 LIFE OF DA VID LI V1NGSTONE, LL.D. 



sunset encamped at Kikoka. The intense heat of the Kingani plains lying 

 on either side told severely on those men who were unaccustomed to travel- 

 ling in Africa, and on the natives also who had indulged their vicious pro- 

 pensities at Zanzibar and Baganioyo before departure. This compelled them 

 to remain a day at Kikoka. 



" During the afternoon of this day," Mr. Stanley says, " as I was pre- 

 paring my last letters, I was rather surprised by a visit paid me in my camp 

 from a party of the Sultan's soldiers, the chief of whom bore a letter from 

 the Governor of Baganioyo, wherein he complained that my people had in- 

 duced about fifteen women to abandon their masters. On mustering the 

 people and inquiring into their domestic affairs, it was discovered that a 

 large number of women had indeed joined the expedition during the night. 

 Most of them, however, bore free papers, accorded to them by the political 

 agent at Zanzibar ; but eleven were, by their own confession, runaway slaves. 

 After being hospitably received by the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Arabs, it 

 was no part of a stranger's duty — unless authorised by some Government 

 likely to abide by its agent's actions — to countenance such a novel mode of 

 liberating the slaves. The order was therefore given, that the women should 

 return with the Sultan's soldiers ; but as this did not agree with either the 

 views of the women themselves, or their abductors, the females set up a de- 

 termined defiance to the order, and the males seized their Snider rifles, vow- 

 ing that they should not return. As such a disposition, and demonstration of 

 hostility, was not polite, nor calculated to deserve my esteem, or to win for 

 me the Arabs' good-will, the manifestation was summarily suppressed, and 

 the women returned to their masters." The noble mastiff, Castor, which had 

 been presented to the traveller by the Baroness Burdett Coutts, died on the 

 journey, of apoplexy brought on by the heat. 



The next intelligence of the intrepid traveller is conveyed in a letter 

 written by him from the Lake Victoria Nyanza, which was published in 

 " The Daily Telegraph," Oct. 15, 1875. On account of its intense interest, 

 we give it here entire : — 



" Village of Kagehyi, District of Uchambi, Usukuma, 

 on the Victoria Nyanza, March 1. 



" The second part of the programme laid before me as Commander of 

 the Anglo-American Expedition ended successfully at noon on the 27th Feb- 

 ruary, 1875. The great lake first discovered by Captain Speke — the Victoria 

 Nyanza — was sighted and reached by us on that day ; and it is with feelings 

 of most devout gratitude to Almighty God for preserving us, amid manifold 

 perils, that I write these lines. 



" It seems an age since we started from Mpwapwa of Usagara, whence 

 I despatched my last letter to you. We have experienced so much, seen and 



