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plain, contains over a thousand tembes and huts, and boasts of a large 
population. It was here that Speke and Burton dwelt for months 
together, and afterwards both Speke and Grant. The luxuries of 
Arabia, Egypt and Zanzibar are to be found in the Arabs’ tembes, 
which are large and handsome. These Arabs, who are nearly all rich 
men, have imported everything they could need for an easy and lux¬ 
urious life. Persian carpets, silver coffee services, wines and spices, 
and last, but not least, extensive harems. They own large flocks and 
herds, and numerous slaves, for household as well as trading purposes. 
In his intercourse with the Arabs, Stanley found the services of Selim, 
his interpreter, invaluable. 
At Tabora Stanley not only found his first, second and fourth 
caravans, which he had despatched previously to his departure from 
Bagamoyo, but also fell in with the caravan which Sir John Kirk, 
British Consul at Zanzibar, had sent off, many months before, to 
relieve Livingstone. When Stanley first landed at Bagamoyo, he had 
found this caravan idling there, having been a hundred days searching 
for the few pagazis required to carry the bales and goods destined 
for Livingstone. Since the middle of May it had been ingloriously 
resting at Tabora. Stanley secured the letters for Livingstone, which 
the chief of the caravan had, and made it his business to look after 
the goods. To this consideration on his part it is probably owing that 
Livingstone ever received them at all. 
On the 20th of September the expedition set out, this time in 
much reduced numbers. For the road was eminently dangerous, and 
Stanley was determined not to be saddled with inefficient followers, 
or a superfluity of baggage. The march to Ujiji was to be the work 
of a “flying column,” the impedimenta or the useless were to be left, 
in more or less clover, at Unyanyembe. This was the program, though 
it was with a doubtful heart that Stanley—worn to a shadow almost 
by constantly recurring fevers—turned his steps towards the shores 
of the Tanganyika. 
On the 3d of November, while encamped on the banks of the 
Malagarazi, Stanley learned from the leaders of a caravan that a 
white man, “old, with white hair on his face, and ill,” had recently 
arrived at Ujiji from Manyema, and that they had seen him as lately 
