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all detraction, he discovered and relieved Livingstone 
" for a that/' 
The expedition having broken down, I was able to 
turn my face once more towards home. Several 
arrangements for leaving Zanzibar having fallen 
through, the steamer Africa" was eventually engaged 
by a party of four of us to take us to the Seychelles, 
in the hope of catching at that place the June mail 
from Mauritius. We left Zanzibar on Wednesday, 
May 29th. The ''Africa," however, failed us. Roll- 
ing and pitching night and day, and lumbering along 
at a most wearisome speed, with nothing to interest 
us but the incessant splashing of the wide watery 
waste, and the occasional appearance of porpoises, 
" boobies,'' and sharks, it was not till the 7th of June 
that we sighted the island to which we were bound ; 
and when we went on shore we were chagrined to 
learn that the mail had left on the preceding day. 
The next opportunity for leaving the island would 
occur in a month, and during that period, therefore, 
we were compelled to remain there. Hiring a pretty 
little wood house, on the outskirts of the town, and 
making an arrangement with the coloured proprie- 
tress of the '' Royal Hotel" to supply our table, we 
yielded ourselves up to a month's holiday, exploring 
the island and town, picking up here and there a new 
idea, and on the whole thoroughly enjoying ourselves. 
We were a party of four; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Oswell 
Livingstone, Captain Morgan, and myself Our house, 
a picture of which we give as a specimen of Seychelles 
architecture and scenery, we called " Livingstone 
Lodge." 
The Seychelles are a group of very picturesque 
