The stores this man had detained at Unyanyembe were in a most sorry state.  The expenses were prepaid for their carriage to Ujiji, but the goods had been purposely detained at this place by Sayd bin Salim since 1867 that he might satisfy his appetite for liquor, and probably fall heir to two valuable guns that were known to be with them.  The white ants had not only eaten up bodily the box in which the guns were packed, but they had also eaten the gunstocks.  The barrels were corroded, and the locks were quite destroyed.  The brandy bottles, most singular to relate, had also fallen a prey to the voracious and irresistible destroyers the white ants—­and, by some unaccountable means, they had imbibed the potent Hennessy, and replaced the corks with corn-cobs.  The medicines had also vanished, and the zinc pots in which they had been snugly packed up were destroyed by corrosion.  Two bottles of brandy and one small zinc case of medicines only were saved out of the otherwise utter wreck.

I also begged the Doctor to send to Sheikh Sayd, and ask him if he had received the two letters despatched by him upon his first arrival at Ujiji for Dr. Kirk and Lord Clarendon; and if he had forwarded them to the coast, as he was desired to do.  The reply to the messengers was in the affirmative; and, subsequently, I obtained the same answer in the presence of the Doctor,

On the 222nd of February, the pouring rain, which had dogged us the entire distance from Ujiji, ceased, and we had now beautiful weather; and while I prepared for the homeward march, the Doctor was busy writing his letters, and entering his notes into his journal, which I was to take to his family.  When not thus employed, we paid visits to the Arabs at Tabora, by whom we were both received with that bounteous hospitality for which they are celebrated.

Among the goods turned over by me to Dr. Livingstone, while assorting such cloths as I wished to retain for my homeward trip, were—­

Doti.  Yards.

First-class American sheeting . . . 285 = 1140

" Kaniki (blue stuff) . . . 16 = 64

Medium " (blue stuff) . . . 60 = 240

" Dabwani cloth . . . . 41 = 64

Barsati cloths . . . . 28 = 112

Printed handkerchiefs . . 70 = 280

Medium Rehani cloth . . . . . 127 = 508

" Ismahili " . . . . 20 = 80

" Sohari " . . . . . 20 = 80

4 pieces fine Kungura (red check) 22 = 88

4 gorah Rehani . . . . . . . 8 = 32

Total number of cloths . 697 = 2788

Besides: 

Cloth, 2788 yards.

Assorted beads, 16 sacks, weight = 992 lbs.

Brass wire, Nos. 5 and 6; 10 fraslilah = 350 lbs.

1 canvas tent, waterproof.

1 air-bed.