ADIEU TO ZANZIBAR. 



8 



dan — died of small-pox before our return, and one — 

 Say} 7 id Barghash — has lately become a state prisoner at 

 Bombay, to bid what proved a last adieu to his father's 

 friend. At the same time His Highness honoured me, 

 through his secretary, Ahmed bin Nuuman, more gene- 

 rally known as Wajhayn, or " Two-faces," with three 

 letters of introduction, to Musa Mzuri, the Indian doyen 

 of the merchants settled at Unyamwezi, to the Arabs 

 there resident, and to all his subjects who were travel- 

 ling into the interior. 



The Artemise conveyed the personnel and the mate- 

 riel of the East African Expedition, namely, the two 

 European members — my companion and myself — -two 

 Portuguese, or rather half-caste Goanese " boys,' 7 two 

 Negro gun-carriers, the Seedy Mubarak Mombai (Bom- 

 bay), and Muinyi Mabruki, his "brother," and finally, eight 

 so-called "Baloch" mercenaries, a guard appointed by 

 the Sultan to accompany me. Lieut. -Colonel Hamerton, 

 at that time Her Majesty's consul and Hon. East India 

 Company's agent at Zanzibar, though almost lethargic 

 from the effects of protracted illness — he lived only in 

 the evening — had deemed it his duty to land us upon 

 the coast, and to superintend our departure from the 

 dangerous seaboard. He was attended by Mr. Erost, the 

 apothecary attached to the consulate, whose treatment 

 for a fatal liver-complaint appeared to consist of minute 

 closes of morphia and a liberal diet of sugar. 



By Lieut.-Colonel Hamerton's advice, I ventured 

 to modify the scheme of the East African Expedition, as 

 originally proposed by the Expeditionary Committee of 

 the Royal Geographical Society of London. In 1855, 

 M. Erhardt, an energetic member of the hapless "Mora- 

 bas Mission," had on his return to London offered to 

 explore a vast mass of water, about the size of the Cas- 



B 2 



