The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-12-22

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io' Me " '.aise small company OF faithful men,
VINO sno aid act as soldiers, guards to the caravan
ana Fservants when necessary. Some OF SpeKe's
ia .nfuls and Burtons soldiers yet lived in Zanzibar.
these were found out by Johari the American Con.
sul's dragoman. and as they were willing to accom-.
pany me- were Immediately engaged Bombay, the
h0nestest OF black men who served with Burton
and subsequently with Spoke, was commissioned
captain and ordered to collect company OF wv enty
men, in which he succeeded most admirably. All
these men are with me to-day. ! could not have
been better served by any set OF men than have BY
these faithful people. BY twos anG threes sent
them out with the carriers they were collected and
entrusted to them my bales Of cloth, bags or beads
and coils OF wire, which you must recoect are as
gold, silver and copper money in Africa. Three
months aiterward found every bale. every bag OF
beads. every coil OF wire IN Unyanyembe, 525 u
miles from Bagom0y0, their initial point on the
African coast
were purchased for these men who were to be my
soldiers; musket, Ratchet a knife shot pouch
and powder mask, nlnts, bullets and powder were TO
deserved out TO each man. Then there were cooking
utensils and Dishes tents to cover the property
during the rainy season, when was fast approach.
ing to be required. In order to guard against
CONTINGENCIES,
such contingencies a. might very possibly arise
viz lack oil carriers on the coast one very grave
0ne-Iwas obliged to purchase twenty five donkeys,
in which task had to be careful lest any worthless
animals might be passed on me. Twenty five saddles
for the uonkeys had to be manufactured by myself
or by such men as could understand what kind of
saddles needed, for there were nothing Of the kind
ODtainaDle at Zanzibar
To assist me In such work. and In tasks OF similar
nature hired two white men, sailors, who had
m q an Etnl a1r and ho
other Scotchman-and having cut the canvas for
the SADDLES and cloth for the tents gave to these
practical men the task to sew them up. After they
had finished their work re-engaged them to &C.
company me to Africa to oil the respective duties
OF first and second mates. As had the success OF
THE NEW YORK HERALD EXPEDITION ee
near and dear to my heart, constant thinking about
1t and the contingencies that might arise to prevent
Its success, over and over had long sketched Its
march from the sea coast TO UjjI. and knew almost
as well as n had been there before what kind Of
difficulties should meet The following is one OF
my sketches made on board ship while coming to
CALCULATIONS AND REFLECTIONS. sl
zone hundred pagass Will be required to convey
cloth, beads and wire enough to keep me and my
soldiers for one year and to pay expenses, such as
hire OF fresh pagazis &C.; twenty men, to act as
guards or soldiers; 6fty bales Of CLOTH ten bags OF
beads and dye loads Of wire, Tor food and pagan
hire In three months l Will try to reach Unyan-
ycmbe. Shall stop in Unyanycmbe two weeks
probably From Unyanyembe is one months
march TO UjbL on the Tanganyika Lake.
And after l-where is Aivingstone2 II Liv-
lngstone Is at UJui my work IL easy.
will get what information can and
return to Unyanyenbe The race IL now for
the telegraph. 1t Is three months to Zanzibar,
from Poi vih I uros fhraA the ntuU
to Zanzibar from Bombay. mag De three months
going from Zanzibar to Bombay. That Will not do.
We viii try another road. To Lake Victoria
N'YanEa nom Unyanyenbe Is twenty-six days BY
boat 10 Uganda would be fifteen days From
Uganda to Gondokoro twenty days. From Condo
k0r0 by Dahabech down the Nile to Cairo forty or
dftv days have then the telegraph from Unyau-
yembe to Bombay from i've 10 six months, from
Unyanyembo three to four montha The latter route
u tho best by far. tr
"Again: have reached DILL. Where Is Lvingstonef
He may DO N Aarungu, Ubembe, Ugahha, Usige
Urundi or somewhere else ON the other side Of the
Lake Tanganyika. shall expose my mission,
which requires speed, TO- che caprice Of .
Amy kanueRA or nswsu nan culayysmY
No. ] shall take my own boat from
Zanzibar, carry It with me TO Viii,
aud with It scarchits coast from 9th to Narungu
Marungu to Usige Usige to Uj, for the long absent
Livingstone. and the same boat shall carry me II ON
Muaza Of the southern extremity OF the lake. to the
Rlpon Falls, the point where tie Nile issues out OF
the N'Yanzan
THE BOATS OF THE EXPEDITION.
This was one OF many sketches made, ana the
one adopted for my guidance. I purchased two
boats in Zanzibar-one twenty i've feet long
ana six feet wide, the other ten feet long
and four AMI half feet wide stripped
them Of their boards, and packed up tho
timbers, ribs with few Of the boards keel, stem
and stern pieces, thwarts and knees which should
DE screwed together as the boat was required, and
covered with double skins well tarred. These
were my boats, and having such men as sailors
with me doubted not but they could be made to
answer. In the absence OF anything better they
must be made to answer.
BEFORE LEAVING ZANZIBAR
Captain Francis Il. Webb, United States Consul In
troduced me to Syed Barghash, sultan or Zanzibar
and rcmha After very kind reception, bcsl des
furnishing me with letters TO Said Bin Salim tior.
merly Ras Cafilah to Bentonl now Governor OF
Unyanyembe, and Sneikh Bin Nasib and to all his
Arab subjects. he presented me with an Arab horse.
Mr.. Coodhue, an American gentleman. residing at
Zanzibar, also mndo me present OF q FLOODED
horse imported from the Cape OF Good Hope. To
the other American gentlemen.-Mr. Spaldlng Mr..
Morse and Mr.. Sparnawk-I nm indebted for many
courleslos. but more particularly to Captain Webb
and Mrs. Webb whose many kindnesses were in.
Vulnerable. It was OF Captain Webbs house
lived for month, and during that time his orbear-
snce knew no bounds; for, AZ you may imagine.
Uttered his house with tons upon tons Of bulky
material of cloth, beads, wire, tar, canvas. tents
utensils and thousand other things.
THE DEPARTURE FROM ZANZIBAR.
On the morning OF the 9Th OF February, one month
after arrival at Zanzibar, neet OF dh0ws bore the
expedition and Its effects from the Island OF Zanzi-
bar to Bagomoyo, on the main land, distant about
twenty ave miles rom the island. We were
DETAINED AT DAGoNoYO
nearly two months for lack OF sunclent pagazIs;
put as fast as they were obtained o small number
was at once fitted out aud despatched to interior
under guard OF two or three soldiers. But despite
the utmost EFFORTS and double prices which paid in
order TO induce the paGazis carriers the collect