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disappeared out of the last lot. Neither are the supplies 
or letters hurried up to time. He might have waited long 
at Ujiji, waiting for goods and letters that never would 
come, if the Herald expedition had not informed him. 
Though the distance from Zanzibar to Unyanyembe is but 
three months for a loaded caravan, yet the Consulate’s 
trusty men stopped on the sea-coast, within a stone’s throw 
(figuratively speaking) of the Consulate, over three months 
and a half, and Livingstone got his goods thirteen and a 
half months after they left the sea-coast, and only at three 
months from the coast. Livingstone had to come for them 
himself, a distance of 350 miles. Within the time that the 
British Consul’s men took to convey Livingstone’s goods 
and letters a distance of 525 miles, the Herald's expedition 
was formed and marched 2059 English statute miles, and 
before the fourteeth month of its departure from the sea- 
coast, the Herald expedition will have arrived at the sea- 
coast, be paid off, and disbanded. 
,**j“ In the matter of supplies, then, being sent to Living- 
stone semi-annually, or annually, there is no truth what- 
ever. The cause is extreme apathy at Zanzibar, and the 
reckless character of the men sent. Where English gen- 
tlemen are so liberal and money so plentiful, it should be 
otherwise. When preparing to return to the coast, your 
correspondent in command of your expedition, turned over 
to Dr. Livingstone nine bales of mixed cloth, 980 pounds 
of assorted beads, well adapted for Rua and Manyema, and 
350 pounds of brass wire, besides one portable boat to cross 
rivers, a supply of carpenter’s tools, revolvers, carbines, 
and several hundred pounds of ammunition. 
“Unyamwezi, Kwihara, Unyanyembi, 
“March 12, 1872. 
“ The day after to-morrow the Herald expedition will 
leave the Land of the Moon, Unyamwezi, for the sea-coast. 
Your correspondent has been commissioned by Dr. Living- 
stone, if there is time before the first ship leaves Zanzibar, 
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