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Nile problem, which he said he w T as in a fair way of 
doing. 
3rd. To proceed to Unyanyembe, receive his caravan, 
enlist men, and try to join Sir Samuel Baker, either 
by going to Muanza, and sailing through Ukerewe or 
Victoria N’Yanza in my boats — which I should put up 
- — to Mtesa’s palace at Uganda, thus passing by Mirambo 
and Swaruru of Usui, who would rob him if he took the 
usual caravan road to Uganda ; thence from Mtesa to 
Kamrasi, King of Unyoro, where he would of course hear 
of the great white man who was said to be with a large 
force of men at Gondokoro. 
4th. To proceed to Unyanyembe, receive his caravan, 
enlist men, and return to Ujiji, and back to Manyuema 
by way of Uguhha. 
5th. To proceed by way of the Rusizi through Ruanda, 
and so on to Itara, Unyoro, and Baker. 
For either course, whichever he thought most ex- 
pedient, I and my men would assist him as escort and 
carriers, to the best of our ability. If he should elect 
to go home, I informed him I should be proud to escort 
him, and consider myself subject to his commands — 
travelling only when he desired, and camping only 
when he gave the word. 
6th. The last course which I suggested to him, was 
to permit me to escort him to Unyanyembe, where he 
could receive his own goods, and where I could deliver 
up to him a large supply of first-class cloth and beads, 
guns and ammunition, cooking utensils, clothing, boats, 
tents, &c., and where he could rest in a comfortable 
house, while I would hurry down to the coast, organise 
a new expedition composed of fifty or sixty faithful men, 
well armed, by whom I could send an additional supply 
of needful luxuries in the shape of creature comforts. 
After long consideration, lie resolved to adopt the 
last course, as it appeared to him to be the most feasible 
one, and the best, though he did not hesitate to comment 
upon the unaccountable apathy of his agent at Zanzibar, 
which had caused him so much trouble and vexation, 
and weary marching of hundreds of miles. 
