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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
lived eighteen years in Africa, twelve of which have 
been spent in Karagwe. He knew Suna, the warlike 
Emperor of Uganda, and father of Mtesa. He has 
travelled to Uganda frequently, and several times made 
the journey between Unyanyembe and Kafurro. Having 
lived so long in Karagwe, he is friendly with Rumanika, 
who, like Mtesa, loves to attract strangers to his court. 
Hamed has endeavoured several times to open trade 
MR. STANLEY AND HIS LARGE FOLLOWING JOURNEYED WESTWARD. 
with the powerful Empress of Ruanda, but has each 
time failed. Though some of his slaves succeeded in 
reaching the imperial court, only one or two managed 
to effect their escape from the treachery and extraor- 
dinary guile practised there. Nearly all perished by 
poison. 
He informed me that the Empress was a tall woman 
