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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
a white couftan finished with a red band, stockings, 
slippers, vest of black cloth embroidered with gold, and 
a tarbouche with a silver plate on the top. He wears a 
sword with ivory-inlaid hilt (a Zanzibar weapon), and a 
staff. 
“ I exhibited my presents, which Mtesa scarcely pre- 
tended to see, his dignity forbidding him to show any 
curiosity. 
“ I address the traveller, who sits in front of me, on 
the left of the king : ‘ Have I the honour of speaking to 
Mr. Cameron ? ’ 
“ Stanley : ‘No, Sir ; Mr. Stanley.’ 
“ Myself : ‘ M. Linant de Bellefonds, member of the 
Gordon-Pasha Expedition.’ 
“We bow low to each other, as though we had met 
in a drawing-room, and our conversation is at an end 
for the moment. 
“ This meeting with Mr. Stanley greatly surprises me. 
Stanley was far from my thoughts ; I was totally 
ignorant of the object of his expedition. 
“ I take leave of the king, who meanwhile has been 
amusing himself by making my unlucky soldiers parade 
and flourish their trumpets. I shake hands with Mr. 
Stanley, and ask him to honour me with his presence at 
dinner. 
“ I had scarcely been more than a few minutes in my 
hut when Mr. Stanley arrived. After having mutually 
expressed the pleasure our meeting gave us, Mr. Stanley 
informed me that Cameron had written from Ujiji that 
he was starting for the Congo. Mr. Cameron, he told 
me, must have been much embarrassed by the question 
of money, having exceeded the amount allowed by the 
Eoyal Geographical Society. At Ujiji, he would have 
lost all his companions, and would be actually alone. 
Mr. Stanley was loud in liis praises of Cameron, and 
hoped that he would succeed in his expedition.” .... 
“ Leaving his expedition at Usukuma, Mr. Stanley 
embarked with eleven men on the Victoria Lake, in a 
small boat which he had brought with him ; he explored 
all the eastern part of the lake, penetrating into all the 
