730 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



Mtesa is sole ruler, and will repay its cost tenfold with ivory, coffee, otter 

 skins of a very fine quality, or even in cattle, for the wealth of this country 

 in all these products is immense. The road here is by the Nile, or via Zan- 

 zibar, Ugogo, and Unyanyembe. The former route, so long as Colonel Gor- 

 don governs the countries of the Upper Nile, seems the most feasible. 



"With all deference I would suggest that the mission should bring to 

 Mtesa as presents three or four suits of military clothes, decorated freely with 

 gold embroidery ; together with half-a-dozen French kepis, a sabre, a brace of 

 pistols, and suitable ammunition ; a good fowling-piece and rifle of good 

 quality, for the king is not a barbarian ; a cheap dinner-service of Britannia 

 ware, an iron bedstead and counterpanes, a few pieces of cotton print, boots, 

 etc. For trade it should also bring fine blue, black, and grey woollen cloths, 

 a quantity of military buttons, gold braid and cord, silk cord of different 

 colours, as well as binding ; linen and sheeting for shirts, fine red blankets, 

 and a quantity of red cloth, with a few chairs and tables. The profit arising 

 from the sale of these things would be enormous. 



" For the mission's use it should bring with it a supply of hammers, saws, 

 augers, chisels, axes, hatchets, adzes, carpenters' and blacksmiths' tools, since 

 the Waganda are apt pupils ; iron drills and powder for blasting purposes, 

 trowels, a couple of good-sized anvils, a forge and bellows, an assortment of 

 nails and tacks, a plough, spades, shovels, pickaxes, and a couple of light 

 buggies as specimens, with such other small things as their own common sense 

 would suggest to the men whom I invite. Most desirable would be an assort- 

 ment of garden seed and grain ; also white-lead, linseed oil, brushes, a few 

 volumes of illustrated journals, gaudy prints, a magic lantern, rockets, and a 

 photographic apparatus. The total cost of the whole equipment need not 

 exceed five thousand pounds sterling. Henry W. Stanley." 



Stanley refers in the foregoing letter to his interview with Colonel cle 

 Bellefonds at Mtesa's capital. The following interesting report was made 

 officially to the Ministry of War at Cairo, and has reference to the same inter- 

 view. It appears in the form of an "Extract from Notes made by M. Linant 

 de Bellefonds, of the staff of General Cordon, Governor-General of the 

 Egyptian Provinces of the Equator, respecting his visit to Mtesa, King of 

 Uganda, and his meeting of Mr. Stanley." 



"Sunday, April 11, 1875. 



" We are camped at Mtesa's capital. His residence is scarcely more than 

 a kilometre from the house which he has placed at my disposal. But let me 

 not anticipate events. 



" This morning a constant rain, which had fallen all the night, prevented 

 as from setting out. At eight o'clock the rain ceased, but the wind arose, 



