END OF THE EXPEDITION. 



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by the same road, which led us into Unyamwezi. 

 But as the former project was dismissed because 

 w^e could not depend upon assistance from Zan- 

 zibar, so the latter was frustrated by the unman- 

 ageable obstinacy of our porters. I wanted 

 exceptional resources for bribing them into com- 

 pliance, and our leave of absence having ended, it 

 was judged imprudent to attempt that expendi- 

 ture of time, which in these regions alone com- 

 pensates for extensive outlay of capital. 



The East African Expedition bade adieu to 

 Unyanyembe on Sept. 26, 1858, and after a march 

 eventless except in delays and difficulties caused 

 by desertion and sickness, by the drought and 

 the famine then desolating the land, it reached 

 in early Eebruary, 1859, the little maritime 

 village Konduclii. Erom the slope of red hill we 

 hailed with delight the first gleam of the Indian 

 Ocean, and my companion thanked me with 

 effasion for the efforts which I had made in 

 enabling him to travel with me. Yerily ' tjiere 

 were nights and days before us,' and we thought 

 little of what presently was to be the con- 

 sequence ! 



The results of the East African Expedition of 

 1857 — 1859, which, with the aid of many friends 

 — their names will be found in the preceding 



