Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . carcely more than a year after his return home from his Zambesi journey,and arrived in Zanzibar in January, 1866. He proposed penetrating tothe Nyassa by way of the Rovuma River and those districts on the eastof the lake inhabited by the dreaded Ajawa, but, except for this mereoutline of a plan, he determined to be guided by circumstances, knowingfrom many a provoking experience how seldom
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . carcely more than a year after his return home from his Zambesi journey,and arrived in Zanzibar in January, 1866. He proposed penetrating tothe Nyassa by way of the Rovuma River and those districts on the eastof the lake inhabited by the dreaded Ajawa, but, except for this mereoutline of a plan, he determined to be guided by circumstances, knowingfrom many a provoking experience how seldom any programme can beaccurately carried out in African travel. Kindly received by the Sultan of Zanzibar, to whom he had first-rateletters of introduction, Livingstone was able to make the necessaryarrangements for his journey with great rapidity, and by the beginningof March he had in his service, in addition to thirteen Sepoys from India,ten Johanna men, two Shapunga men, one of them the now celebratedSusi, two Wayans, the Chumah who with Susi remained with his masterto the last, and a Wakatani. -An Arab dhow was purchased for thetransit to the Rovuma of the animals, consisting of six camels, three. (221) 222 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. buffaloes, two mules, and four donkeys, and large stores of merchandiseand provisions. No pains, in short, were spared to ensure success, andon the 18th of March all was ready for the Expedition Starts. The explorer and his retinue crossed from Zanzibar to the main landin Her Majestys ship Penguin, and after a rather disheartening exami-nation of the mouths of the Rovuma, Mikindany Bay, twenty-five milesabove them, was fixed upon as the best spot for disembarkation. Living-stone and his people landed, the Penguin took her leave, and the workof the expedition may be said to have begun. A house on the sea-shorewas hired at the rate of four dollars a month to form a kind of permanentstorehouse; the animals were disembarked from the dhow, car
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