sentimentality, which I was to treasure up as the last words of the patriarchal Sheikh, the son of Nasib, the son of Ali, the son of Sayf.  Poor Sheikh! if thou hadst only known what was at the bottom of this stubbornness—­this ass-like determination to proceed the wrong way—­what wouldst thou then have said, 0 Sheikh?  But the Sheikh comforted himself with the thought that I might know what I was about better than he did, which is most likely, only neither he nor any other Arab will ever know exactly the motive that induced me to march at all westward—­when the road to the east was ever so much easier.

My braves whom I had enlisted for a rapid march somewhere, out of Unyanyembe, were named as follows:—­

1.  John William Shaw, London, England.

2.  Selim Heshmy, Arab.

3.  Seedy Mbarak Mombay, Zanzibar.

4.  Mabruki Spoke, ditto.

5.  Ulimengo, ditto

6.  Ambari, ditto.

7.  Uledi, ditto.

8.  Asmani, ditto.

9.  Sarmean, ditto.

10.  Kamna, ditto.

11.  Zaidi, ditto.

12.  Khamisi, ditto.

13.  Chowpereh, Bagamoyo.

14.  Kingaru, ditto.

15.  Belali, ditto.

16.  Ferous, Unyanyembe.

17.  Rojab, Bagamoyo.

18.  Mabruk Unyanyembe, Unyanyembe.

19.  Mtamani, ditto.

20.  Chanda, Maroro.

21.  Sadala, Zanzibar.

22.  Kombo, ditto.

23.  Saburi the Great, Maroro.

24.  Saburi the Little, ditto.

25.  Marora, ditto.

26.  Ferajji (the cook), Zanzibar.

27.  Mabruk Saleem, Zanzibar.

28.  Baraka, ditto.

29.  Ibrahim, Maroro.

30.  Mabruk Ferous, ditto.

31.  Baruti, Bagamoyo.

32.  Umgareza, Zanzibar.

33.  Hamadi (the guide), ditto.

34.  Asmani, ditto, ditto.

35.  Mabruk, ditto ditto.

36.  Hamdallah (the guide), Tabora.

37.  Jumah, Zanzibar.

38.  Maganga, Mkwenkwe.

39.  Muccadum, Tabora.

40.  Dasturi, ditto.

41.  Tumayona, Ujiji.

42.  Mparamoto, Ujiji.

43.  Wakiri, ditto.

44.  Mufu, ditto.

45.  Mpepo, ditto.

46.  Kapingu, Ujiji.

47.  Mashishanga, ditto.

48.  Muheruka, ditto.

49.  Missossi, ditto.

50.  Tufum Byah, ditto.

51.  Majwara (boy), Uganda.

52.  Belali (boy), Uemba.

53.  Kalulu (boy), Lunda.

54.  Abdul Kader (tailor), Malabar.

These are the men and boys whom I had chosen to be my companions on the apparently useless mission of seeking for the lost traveller, David Livingstone.  The goods with which I had burdened them, consisted of 1,000 doti, or 4,000 yds. of cloth, six bags of beads, four loads of ammunition, one tent, one bed and clothes, one box of medicine, sextant and books, two loads of tea, coffee, and sugar, one load of flour and candles, one load of canned meats, sardines, and miscellaneous necessaries, and one load of cooking utensils.