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matama and grain, and herds of cattle and flocks of sheep. Crowds of 
men, women and children came together to see the Musungu (white 
men), who were subjected to the minutest examination, regardless of 
any personal feelings they may have had on the subject. But in face 
of the plentiful supplies which came pouring in, in exchange for doti 
of cloth and' necklaces of beads, such excessive interest in their per¬ 
sons did not affect the Musungu. Indian corn, matama, honey, ghee 
(butter), beans, peanuts, watermelons, pumpkins and cucumbers, to¬ 
gether with milk, were among the supplies which the country afforded; 
and what was of still greater satisfaction to the purchasers, the people 
themselves were easily satisfied as to the price. Far different was it 
with the Wagogo chiefs. The extortionate demands of Shylock paled 
before those which the chiefs of the many villages, through which the 
expedition passed, required Stanley to pay as tribute. 
The expedition was now marching in a northwesterly direction, 
right on Unyanyembe. Marching as rapidly as possible, by June 27, 
Stanley sighted the suburbs of Tabora, and with guns firing, flags 
flying, and the soldiers and carriers dressed in their bravest loin¬ 
cloths, on the same day he made his entry, and the long march of the 
carriers hired at Bagamoyo came to an end. 
Unyanyembe is the central district of the great country Uny- 
amwezi, the most important and fertile country in the whole of that 
part of Central and Eastern Africa. It is a vast table-land, sloping 
in gentle undulations towards Lake Tanganyika, into which the coun¬ 
try chiefly drains. The mountainous character of Usagara is wanting, 
as well as the fertile plains of Ugogo; but in their place league upon 
league of purple forests roll away into the hazy distance, and wide 
stretches of pasture, on which ten thousand flocks are grazing, sep¬ 
arate these forest belts. A dozen powerful states are contained within 
this region, and the supremacy is continually passing from one state 
to another. The people of this great country, the Wanyamwezi, carry 
off the palm among the people of Central Africa. They are well 
developed and intelligent, enterprising and industrious, good traders 
and travelers. They are the inter-tribal porters of the continent, the 
prop of the Arab caravans, the reliance of the white man. 
Tabora, which is situated’ in the midst of an extremely fertile 
