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THE KILIMA NJARO EXPEDITION 
I continued on my way to Zanzibar, to confer with 
Sir John Kirk, and to engage a certain number of men. 
Accordingly, one day in the middle of April, 1884, I 
awoke in the early sunshine, and looked forth on a 
crescent of white buildings rising above an irregular 
line of black shipping and black mud, and later on in 
the day landed at Zanzibar, and found myself in that 
busy mart of East African trade, whence so many ex¬ 
peditions and explorers have started for the conquest 
of Africa’s secrets. Here I was soon enjoying the 
kind hospitality of Sir John Kirk, and feeling in the 
contemplation of the strange, varied life around me 
that the first chapter of my experiences in East Africa 
had pleasantly begun. 
Map 2.—Route to Kilima-ujaro. 
