IN GOOD HEALTH AND SPIRIT8. 
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to hand, besides those despatched by Dr. Seward and iny- 
self, in 1866. And all in consequence of Ludha and 
Banian slaves having unwittingly been employed to for- 
ward an expedition opposed to their slaving interests. It 
was, no doubt, amiable in Dr. Kirk to believe the polite 
Banians in asserting that they would send stores at once, 
and again that my wants had all been supplied; but it would 
have been better to have dropped the money into Zanzibar 
harbor than to trust it in their hands, because the whole 
population has witnessed the open plunder of English 
property, and the delinquents are screened from justice by 
Banian agents. The slaves needed no more than a hint to 
plunder and baffle. Shereef and all the Banian slaves who 
acted in accordance with the views of their masters, are 
now at Ujiji and Unyanyembc, by the connivance of the 
Governor, or rather Banian trade agent, Syde bin Salem 
Burasehid, who, when the wholesale plunder by Shereef be- 
came known, wrote to me that he (the Governor) had no 
hand in it. I never said he had. 
However, though sorely knocked up, ill, and dejected, on 
arriving at Ujiji, I am now completely recovered in health 
and spirits. I need no more goods, but I draw on Her 
Majesty’s Consul at Zanzibar for £500 of the £1000 placed 
at his disposal for me by Her Majesty’s Government, in 
order that Mr. Stanley may employ and send off fifty free 
men, but no slaves, from Zanzibar. I need none but them, 
and have asked Seyed Burghash to give me a good, honest 
head man, with a character that may be inquired into. I 
expect them about the end of June, and after all the delay 
1 have endured, feel quite exhilarated at the prospect ol 
doing my work. 
Geographers will be interested to know the plan I pro- 
pose to follow. I shall at present avoid Ujiji, and go 
about southwest from this to Fipa, which is east ol and 
near the south end of Tanganyika ; then round the same 
south end, only touching it again at Pambette | thence re- 
suming the southwest course to cross the Chambeze, and 
