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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
Salim, an old man of sixty-five years of age, Mohammed 
bin Sayid, a young Arab with a remarkably long nose 
and small eyes, Sheikh Abed’s fundis or elephant 
hunters, and several Wangwana, all dressed in spotless 
white shirts, crimson fezzes, and sandals. 
Sheikh Abed was pleased to monopolize me, by 
offering me a house in his neighbourhood. 
The manner that we entered Nyangwe appeared, 
from subsequent conversation, to have struck Sheikh 
Abed, who, from his long residence there, had witnessed 
the arrival and departure of very many caravans. 
There was none of the usual firing of guns and wild 
shouting and frenzied action ; and the order and steadi- 
ness of veterans, the close files of a column which 
tolerably well understood by this time the difference 
between discipline and lawlessness with its stragglers 
and slovenly laggards, made a marked impression upon 
the old Arab. Ever since the murder of Kaif Halleck 
in Ituru, our sick had never been permitted to crawl to 
camp unaided and unprotected. The asses, four in 
number, and supernumeraries were always at hand to 
convey those unable to travel, while those only slightly 
indisposed were formed into a separate company under 
Frank and six chiefs. 
Another thing that surprised the Arab was the 
rapidity of the journey from the Tanganika — -338 miles 
in forty-three days, inclusive of all halts. He said that 
the usual period occupied by Arabs was between three 
and four months. Yet the members of the Expedition 
were in admirable condition. They had never enjoyed 
better health, and we had not one sick person ; the only 
one incapacitated from work was Kalulu, and he had 
been accidentally wounded only the very night before. 
Between the Tanganika and the Arab depot of Nyangwe 
neither Frank nor I had suffered the slightest indis- 
position. 
Nyangwe is the extreme westernmost locality in- 
habited by the Arab traders from Zanzibar. It stands 
in east longitude 26° 16', south latitude 4° 15', on the 
right or eastern side of the Lualaba, on the verge of a 
