The story of Africa and its explorers . gars—despatched to them by Major Wiss-mann, familiar to us as a traveller acrossAfrica, but then German Imperial Commis-sioner ; and from this point the returningtravellers were almost daily gladdened with THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. kindly notes and friendly gifts from theirfriends in Zanzibar and Bagamoyo. At this place also Mr. Stanley was met bythe ubiquitous American newspaper corre-Approaching spoi^clents, bearing goodwill-offer-the journeys ings of tooth-brushes, soap, andance of*the^ Florida Avater. One of these, incaravan. ^iis eagerness to tap the new
The story of Africa and its explorers . gars—despatched to them by Major Wiss-mann, familiar to us as a traveller acrossAfrica, but then German Imperial Commis-sioner ; and from this point the returningtravellers were almost daily gladdened with THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. kindly notes and friendly gifts from theirfriends in Zanzibar and Bagamoyo. At this place also Mr. Stanley was met bythe ubiquitous American newspaper corre-Approaching spoi^clents, bearing goodwill-offer-the journeys ings of tooth-brushes, soap, andance of*the^ Florida Avater. One of these, incaravan. ^iis eagerness to tap the news withwhich Mr. Stanley was laden, had been far belonged figured on some member ot theparty, and not a few of them were clad in thenakedness which is the daily garb of thegreater number of the African people. Thirtyor forty men of the expedition had been re-warded with flaming red blankets as robes ofhonour for good service, and had been promotedby Mr. Stanley to the ofiice of carrying his tentand personal effects. The commander him-. STATION OF USAMBIEO, WHERE STANLEY STAYED WITH MACKAY.(From a sketch by Bishop Thicker, made from the door of the room ivhere Mackay died.) into the Masai country, expecting that thereturn column would have taken that Stevens—the enterprising gentleman inquestion—describes the expedition, as he sawit just before its breaking up, as extremelypicturesque. Out of the disorder of the order had long ago been evolved. Nearlyone thousand people defiled along the windingAfrican path in Indian file. Every costumeseen in those parts of Africa to which they * The shed to the right was Mackays workshop ; thet Stairs, , p. 956. self rode a very good donkey, which was incharge of a young man with a red turban,red knee-breeches, and a red shirt, and Avhoseemed fully conscious of the exalted positionto which he had, by his personal merits, at-tained. Behind the donkey streamed thegreat explorers special corps, with boxes,ten
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