. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring. .24 PREPAEATIONS IN ZANZIBAR AND ON THE COAST. officer of the Sultan was a feeble personage, with little influence. We hoped for better results by advertising that a dollar would be given as an extra present to every man who enlisted under us. In spite of this, however, and although we hired some slaves who had never set foot in Masailand, we got on much more slowly than we could have wished. And to all our trouble was added anxiety about the fate of the dhow, which left Zanzibar two days before we did a
. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring. .24 PREPAEATIONS IN ZANZIBAR AND ON THE COAST. officer of the Sultan was a feeble personage, with little influence. We hoped for better results by advertising that a dollar would be given as an extra present to every man who enlisted under us. In spite of this, however, and although we hired some slaves who had never set foot in Masailand, we got on much more slowly than we could have wished. And to all our trouble was added anxiety about the fate of the dhow, which left Zanzibar two days before we did and had not yet arrived ; but from this we were relieved at last, on the afternoon of January 25, by the sound of the firino- of cruns from the direction of the river. We meant to tranship men and goods to boats, and send them up-stream at once to Mauia, the first halting- place for caravans, so as to keep our forces together, for we could not hope to do so in a scattered village like Pangani, where there were so many good nooks to hide. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Höhnel, Ludwig, Ritter von. London : Longmans, Green & Co
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