And an order that each one should receive ten dollars
dowry-money as soon as he could find a wife.
With these letters in their hands, I made arrangements with our
Consul, Mr Drummond Hay, to frank them through Suez, Aden, and
the Seychelles to Zanzibar.
Since then, I have heard that Captain Bombay and his party missed
the Seychelles, and went on to the Mauritius, where Captain
Anson, Inspector-General of Police, kindly took charge of them
and made great lions of them. A subscription was raised to give
them a purse of money; they were treated with tickets to the
"circus," and sent back to the Seychelles, whence they were
transported by steamer to Zanzibar, and taken in charge by our
lately-appointed Consul, Colonel Playfair, who appears to have
taken much interest in them. Further, they volunteered to go with
me again, should I attempt to cross Africa from east to west,
through the fertile zone.
Footnotes:
[FN#1] The equator was crossed on the 8th February 1862.
[FN#2] The Wahuma are treated of in Chapter IX.
[FN#3] The list of my fauna collection will be found in an early
Number of the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London."
[FN#4] Captain Burton, on receiving his gold medal at the hands
of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, said, "You have alluded, sir, to
the success of the last expedition. Justice compels me to state
the circumstances under which it attained that success. To
Captain Speke are due those geographical results to which you
have alluded in such flattering terms. Whilst I undertook the
history and ethnography, the languages, and the peculiarity of
the people, to Captain Speke fell the arduous task of delineating
an exact topography, and of laying down our positions by
astronomical observations - a labour to which, at times, even the
undaunted Livingstone found himself unequal."
[FN#5] Vol. iii. of A. D. 1801.
[FN#6] It was such an attack as I had on my former journey; but
while mine ceased to trouble me after the first year, his kept
recurring every fortnight until the journey ended.
[FN#7] It may be as well to remark here, that the figures both
in latitude and longitude, representing the position of Kaze,
computed by Mr Dunkin, accord with what appeared in Blackwood's
Magazine, computed by myself, and in the R. G. S. Journal Map,
computed by Captain George.
This applies also to the position of Ujiji; at any rate, the
practical differences are so trifling that it would require a
microscope to detect them on the map.
[FN#8] The Jub is the largest river known to the Zanzibar Arabs.
It debouches on the east coast north of Zanzibar, close under the
equator.
[FN#9] The two first gold watches were given away at Zanzibar.
