eir time of service; an order for a grand "freeman's garden," to
be purchased for them at Zanzibar; 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:

[Footnote 1: The equator was crossed on the 8th February 1862.]

[Footnote 2: The Wahuma are treated of in Chapter IX.]

[Footnote 3: The list of my fauna collection will be found in an early
Number of the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London."]

[Footnote 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."]

[Footnote 5: Vol. iii. of A. D. 1801.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 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, c